Delhi court sends Chitra Ramkrishna to judicial custody till August 5

A Delhi court sent Chitra Ramkrishna to judicial custody till August 5 2022 Ramkrishna a former MD and CEO of the National Stock Exchange was arrested by the Enforcement Directorate ED under the money laundering act for alleged illegal phone tapping and snooping of employees of the stock exchangeShe was produced before the court after the ending of the remand period granted earlier Special Judge Sunaina Sharma on Friday sent Chitra to Judicial Custody after taking note of the ED application which did not seek further custody Special Public Prosecutor Naveen Kumar Matta appeared for the Enforcement Directorate in the matter The same court on Wednesday sent Sanjay Pandey former Mumbai Police Commissioner to eight days ED remand in the National Stock Exchange NSE colocation scam caseED earlier submitted that Chitra Ramkrishna is necessary to establish a money trail of proceeds of crime and to gather crucial evidence ED alleged that she was directly or indirectly indulging in or knowingly assisted in and was actually involved in all processes or activity connected with the proceeds of crime including its concealment possession acquisition or use and further in projecting or claiming it as untainted property ED lawyer had also submitted that custodial interrogation of Chitra Ramkrishna is essential to further determine her own role as well as that of various other persons who facilitated the offence of money laundering and to determine the entire modus operandi employed for the generation of proceeds of crime and projection thereof as licit payment for Periodic Study of Cyber Vulnerabilities of NSEED lawyer further submitted that custodial interrogation of Chitra Ramkrishna is essential to establish a money trail of Proceed of Crime as well as projection thereof as she may be required to be confronted with the other suspects named in the impugned FIR She is also required to be confronted with various documents collected during the course of the investigation ED further submitted that custodial interrogation of Chitra Ramkrishna is necessary to ascertain her complicity with other key players involved in laundering the proceeds of crime her relationship and modus operandi adopted with such other persons The Central Bureau of Investigation CBI recently registered a fresh FIR in the NSE CoLocation Case over allegations of phone tapping Following the orders of the Ministry of Home Affairs MHA the Central Bureau of Investigation CBI last week registered a fresh case in the alleged National Stock Exchange NSE colocation scam that involves phone tapping of NSE employeesThe fresh FIR mentioed the names of former NSE Chief Chitra Ramakrishna Ravi Narain and former Mumbai Commissioner Sanjay Pandey for allegedly tapping phones of NSE officials and other irregularities Pandey is a 1986batch Indian Police Service IPS officer who retired from service on June 30 During the investigation it has been found that Pandey is closely related to the functioning and activities of a company called iSec Securities Pvt Ltd The company had conducted a security audit of NSE around the time the alleged colocation irregularities have taken place The company was incorporated by Pandey in March 2001 and he quit as its director in May 2006 His son and mother took over the charge of the company It has been alleged that illegal phone tapping of NSE employees was done between 200917This story has been sourced from a third party syndicated feed agencies Midday accepts no responsibility or liability for its dependability trustworthiness reliability and data of the text Midday managementmiddaycom reserves the sole right to alter delete or remove without notice the content in its absolute discretion for any reason whatsoever