ASG Raju, on the other hand, apprehended that Ayyub would leave the country and never return.
At this point, the Court asked Raju,
“How do you defend your LOC? It is an admitted fact by you that whenever summons was issued, she joined. So how do you defend that?”
Raju replied,
“Despite repeated summons, documents have not been supplied. Fake bills have been provided, according to us. Prima facie there is a case of cheating. She cannot run away. Today cooperation part is missing. Appearance is not cooperation.”
Justice Singh countered,
“If any accused person is appearing before agency and agency is saying the person is appearing but not cooperating, what is the stick to measure this? If there is non-cooperation then why don’t you arrest her?”
Grover added that all documents pertaining to Ayyub’s accounts were already with the Mumbai branch of the ED.
When the Court asked what was the material on record to issued the LOC, ASG Raju said,
“Material is that crores of money have spent by credit card…Now we want her to sit with us. Our case is money has not been used for Covid relief.”
Source: Barandbench
