India News | Delhi Court Sends SDPI President M K Faizy to 6-day ED Custody

New Delhi, Mar 4 (PTI) A Delhi court on Tuesday sent SDPI national president M K Faizy to the custody of the ED for six days in an alleged money laundering case over proscribed Popular Front of India (PFI).

Additional sessions judge Chander Jit Singh sent Faizy to custody on the plea of the Enforcement Directorate (ED) seeking his interrogation and confronting him to unearth the money trail in the case and conspiracy.

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The Social Democratic Party of India (SDPI), founded in 2009 and headquartered in Delhi, is alleged to be the political front of the now banned Popular Front of India (PFI).

In its application seeking 10 days of his custody, the ED alleged Faizy was on the run.

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The accused opposed the application, saying the funds were transferred before the PFI was declared unlawful.

"How could accused know that the government was going to declare it unlawful so that could have stopped the transaction," the defence counsel said.

Faizy, according to the sources, was held on the night of March 3 from the Delhi international airport under the Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA).

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