Unitech owners operating from Tihar, Supreme Court shifts them to Mumbai

Both Sanjay and Ajay, who are in jail since August 2017, are accused of siphoning off home buyers' money

The Supreme Court on Thursday ordered that former Unitech promoters Sanjay Chandra and Ajay Chandra be immediately shifted from the Tihar Jail here to separate jails in Mumbai and slammed the prison authorities as “absolutely shameless” after the ED claimed the brothers were conducting business from inside in connivance with the prison staff.

The Enforcement Directorate(ED) also alleged it had unearthed a “secret underground office” in the national capital and that the premises was being operated by the erstwhile Unitech founder Ramesh Chandra and visited by his sons Sanjay and Ajay while on parole or bail.

Directing that Sanjay and Ajay Chandra