FERA case: ED tells HC cannot share documents with Dinakaran

March 21, 2018 12:49

The Enforcement Directorate has informed the Madras High Court it cannot share copies of official documents, including the case diary, to Amma Makkal Munnetra Kazhagam leader TTV Dinakaran in connection with the 1996 FERA case filed against him.

When the criminal revision petition by Dinakaran came up yesterday before Justice M V Muralidaran, the ED filed a counter affidavit stating that the documents sought by the accused to defend himself in the two-decade-old case cannot be provided to him as doing so is barred under the CrPC. Dhinakaran had filed the petition challenging the order of the Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate (Economic Offences-II), declining to issue copies of certain documents, including the case diary, sought by him.

The ED submitted that Foreign Exchange Regulation Act, 1973, prohibits disclosure of any document, information, or intelligence of the department which were kept highly confidential and protected. Hence, such documents also cannot be provided, it said. The matter relates to the allegation that Dinakaran acquired USD 1,04,93,313 in foreign exchange without obtaining prior permission from the Reserve Bank of India and deposited it in the current account of Dipper Investments Ltd., a company incorporated in the British Virgin Islands, and having account with Barclays Bank, Sutton, United Kingdom. PTI

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