New Delhi, August 12, 2023: The Enforcement Directorate (ED) today interrogated former Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) judge Sudhir Parmar in connection with a money laundering case linked to a corruption investigation by the Haryana anti-corruption bureau (ACB).
Parmar, who was arrested recently, has been accused of alleged favoritism in his dealings with real estate developers Roop Bansal, Basant Bansal of M3M, and Lalit Goyal of IREO Group.
Suspended in April and subsequently arrested, Parmar was remanded to six-day ED custody by a special Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA) court in Chandigarh. The ED’s actions are based on the enforcement case information report (ECIR) filed on June 13, derived from the ACB’s first information report (FIR) registered in April.
The ACB FIR detailed instances of alleged grave misconduct, abuse of official position, and the demand and acceptance of undue advantage from the accused in cases pending in Parmar’s court.
Parmar’s dealings with the Bansal brothers and Lalit Goyal have raised questions of favoritism and impropriety. The arrested individuals, including the Bansal brothers, Goyal, and a judicial officer’s nephew, Ajay Parmar, have also been arrested by the ED earlier.
The ACB FIR, which led to the ECIR registration by the ED, was based on “reliable source information,” WhatsApp conversations, and audio recordings that purportedly unveiled instances of misconduct and abuse of power by Parmar. The FIR cited allegations of “demand and acceptance of undue advantage and bribe from the accused persons in the cases pending in his court.”
The ongoing investigation sheds light on the complex web of alleged corruption and misconduct involving a former CBI judge and the real estate developers.
