The HC on Monday granted them interim bail and came down heavily on the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) for making the arrest in a 'casual and mechanical' manner and without application of mind.
Videocon chairman Venugopal Dhoot arrested: The central agency had arrested former ICICI Bank CEO and managing director Chanda Kochhar and her husband Deepak Kochhar last week.
Videocon loan fraud case: Kochhar couple, Venugopal Dhoot of Videocon Group, along with companies Nupower Renewables, Supreme Energy, Videocon International Electronics Ltd and Videocon Industries Limited were booked by the CBI as accused.
NCLT has approved the resolution plan of Twin Star Technologies Limited to acquire the bankrupt Videocon Industries.
The Bombay High Court has granted bail to businessman Deepak Kochhar, husband of ex-ICICI Bank CEO Chanda Kochhar, in the ICICI Bank-Videocon loan case.
Members of the Videocon Group Employees Union (VGEU) staged a sit-in near the house of Videocon group chairman Venugopal Dhoot here on Thursday morning, demanding payment of unpaid salaries.
"The responsibility of cleaning work was assigned to MS Enterprises company. The deceased persons worked for it and stayed in South Delhi," he said, adding that their families have been informed.
The senior ED official told that Kochhar has been summoned to appear before the agency's Jamnagar office in central Delhi on June 10 at 10.30 a.m.
Three of the Kochhars were also directors on the company's board in 1995, when it was founded, though it's not clear if Videocon held a stake in the company at that time.
Former ICICI Bank CEO Chanda Kochhar's brother-in-law Rajiv Kochhar, Wednesday moved a Delhi court seeking cancellation of look out circular (LOC) against him in an alleged bank loan fraud and money laundering case.
It is said that if you dress cronyism as a favour, then you wind up on skid row. Equally, sorrows dont come individually but in battalions. The tale of Chanda Kochhar and her husband Deepak intertwining their fate and destiny with Videocons Venugopal Dhoot leaves behind in its wake a smoking gun which refuses to go away from the scene of the crime.
They have been questioned in the past too at the agency's office in Mumbai after the central agency conducted raids in this case on March 1.
The first Credential Finance Ltd (CFL) was birthed on January 23, 1985 as Bloomfield Builders & Construction at Mumbai RoC (Registrar of Companies) with registration No. 035149. By 1994, it fell into the hands of the Kochhars, who renamed it Credential Finance Ltd.
The ED had registered a case of money laundering in February on the basis of a CBI FIR. In January, the CBI had raided four locations in Mumbai related to the case.
The officials said the agency would probe if alleged kickbacks generated in the loan deal were laundered to create tainted assets.
The enquiry report submitted by Justice (Retd) B N Srikrishna Wednesday concluded that there was lack of diligence with respect to annual disclosures and violation of code of conduct, on her part.
An agency source said that Mishra, a Superintendent of Police in Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) and was part of the Banking and Securities Fraud Cell (BSFC), was transferred to the agency's Economic Offences wing on January 23.
On Thursday, the investigative agency carried out searches at multiple locations after registering a case.
The CBI registered the preliminary enquiry after news reports raised questions about Videocon Chairman Venugopal Dhoot allegedly providing crores of rupees to a firm promoted by Deepak Kochhar.
SEBI's statement comes after the market dealings of the ICICI Bank and Kochhar family have come under the regulatory sense of both SEBI and various other agencies.
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