Summary:
Mumbai, Jan 27 (PTI) A special court here on Friday took cognisance of charge-sheet filed by the Enforcement Directorate (ED) against former Maharashtra home minister Anil Deshmukh and his two sons in connection with a money laundering case.
Special Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA) court judge, R N Rokade, issued process against the accused after taking cognisance of the charge sheet.
In December last year, the ED had filed the 7,000-page supplementary charge sheet in connection with the case.
Besides Deshmukh, it had named named his two sons as accused in the case.
Prior to that, the probe agency had filed a charge sheet against 14 accused, including Deshmukh"s private secretary (an additional collector-rank officer) Sanjeev Palande and personal assistant Kundan Shinde.
Deshmukh was arrested by the ED on November 1 last year in connection with the case and is currently in judicial custody.