Won’t act on eviction notices till appeal of Shilpa Shetty, her husband is decided: ED tells HC
Mumbai: The ED told the Bombay High Court on Thursday that it would not act upon the eviction notices issued to actor Shilpa Shetty and her husband Raj Kundra till their application challenging a property attachment order is heard and decided by an appellate tribunal.
On September 27, the Enforcement Directorate (ED) issued notices to Shetty and her businessman husband, directing them to vacate their house in Mumbai’s Juhu area and a farmhouse in Pune in connection with a money laundering case.
The duo challenged the same in the HC, terming it as arbitrary, illegal and uncalled for.
The notices were issued pursuant to an attachment order passed by the agency against the couple’s properties.
A division bench of Justices Revati Mohite Dere and Prithviraj Chavan had on Wednesday asked the ED what was the urgency to issue an eviction notice after the attachment order was passed when the couple has a legal remedy to appeal against the order.
On Thursday, the ED told the court that the eviction notices shall not be acted upon till the petitioners file their appeal against the attachment order and the same is decided by the tribunal.
The bench accepted the statement and said in the event of an adverse order by the tribunal, the notices shall not be brought into effect for a period of two weeks thereafter.
The court disposed of the petitions.
Shetty and Kundra, in their petitions, challenged the ED notices dated September 27 directing them to evict their residential premises here
and a farmhouse in Pune within 10 days in connection with a money laundering case linked to an alleged Bitcoin fraud.
The couple’s advocate, Prashant Patil, said Shetty and Kundra received the eviction notices only on October 3. He termed the notices arbitrary and illegal and sought them to be quashed.
According to the pleas, there is no grave urgency for the petitioners to vacate their premises and that the issuance of such eviction notices was uncalled for.
