Supreme Court rejects Jacqueline Fernandez plea

Srilankan beauty Jacqueline Fernandez has been embroiled in the money laundering scam worth Rs 200crs involving the alleged conman Sukesh Chandrasekhar.

Jacqueline Fernandez approached Supreme Court against the High Court, requesting to overturn a Delhi High Court ruling. Supreme Court however refused to entertain her plea saying “We will not interfere at this stage,” a bench of Justices Dipankar Datta and Augustine George Masih told senior advocate Mukul Rohatgi, who represented Jacqueline Fernandez.

High Court in its earlier ruling said “Whether the investigating agency chose a pick and choose policy or decided not to proceed against the others, based on the merits of the case, is not an issue under consideration before this court; petitioner is always at liberty to raise this issue at an appropriate stage.”

The court also added "The petition and plea of petitioner cannot be entertained for quashing of the ECIR dated August 8, 2021 and 2nd supplementary complaint dated August 17, 2022. The petition is, therefore, dismissed."

It added  "first-hand knowledge of Sukesh Chandrasekhar being in prison," the ED had not named them as accused. This "disparate treatment,"