Ed Summons Manu Chhabrias Brother-In-Law

Niranjan Thakur, brother-in-law of Manohar Rajaram Chhabria, has been asked to appear before the Enforcement Directorate in Calcutta by the end of this month. He will be questioned on the alleged Rs 80-crore Shaw Wallace Fera violation case.

This is the first time that Thakur will be interrogated in Calcutta, the zonal office which is the coordinating authority for the case. Thakur, believed to be one of the key persons siphoning money to the Dubai-based chairman of SWC, has been restrained by the Mumbai High Court from leaving the city. He had been summoned to the ED office at Calcutta earlier on January 29.

 

The Mumbai court order was passed following his arrest two months back in relation to the same case.

The enforcement authorities in Calcutta wrote to their counterparts in Mumbai to set a favourable date on which Thakur could appear before them.

Thakur has been questioned time and again by the ED officials at Mumbai and was behind bars for around a month after the crackdown on Shaw Wallace premises in Mumbai late last year. The ED officals are tightlipped about the manner in which they will bring the Shaw Wallace chairman, Manu Chhabria, to India to depose before them. Last year, Chhabria had refused to comply with their summons saying that he is a non-resident Indian and therefore not bound by Fera laws.

The ED is questioning Shaw Wallace officials almost everyday. The officials are basing their questions on documents seized from SWC premises.