New Delhi: Sudhir Parmar, Haryana’s Special CBI Judge, was arrested by the ED in a case alleging him taking bribes to save offenders. Earlier, he was suspended.
The judge is accused of taking bribes in a case related to real estate companies IREO Group and M3M Group.
He was taken into custody from Gurugram under the provisions of the Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA). ED might produce him before the court on Friday and will try to take him on custodial remand.
The central probe agency had earlier arrested Parmar’s nephew Ajay Parmar and two promoters of the real estate company Basant Bansal and Pankaj Basal and IREO owner and MD Lalit Goyal.
An FIR of a money laundering case was registered in April by the Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) of the Haryana Police against Special CBI Judge Sudhir Parmar, posted at a special PMLA court in Panchkula, and his nephew Ajay Parmar.
The ED, in its FIR, said the agency had received information from reliable sources that the judge was helping accused Roop Kumar Bansal, his brother Basant Bansal and Lalit Goyal of IREO in criminal and other cases of ED against them.
Undue advantage or bribe was demanded from the accused in cases pending in the court and misuse of official position, said ED in FIR. Parmar was suspended by the Punjab and Haryana High Court after the case was registered in this matter.
