New Delhi: The Enforcement Directorate has filed a chargesheet against Bhupinder Singh Honey, the nephew of former chief minister Charanjit Singh Channi and others in the illegal sand mining case. The chargesheet was filed under sections of Prevention of Money Laundering Act.
The court has fixed April 6 for hearing the case. Harneet Oberoi, the counsel of Honey, refused to speak when contacted. The ED twice got Honey's custody and was later remanded to judicial custody. He was arrested during the intervening night of February 3 and 4 by the ED.
"Honey was evasive and was not cooperating with the probe agency," ED had said. Honey's counsel was allowed to meet him on alternate days. Documents said that Honey allegedly used to take money from the officials in lieu of their choice of transfers and postings.
"Moreover, Bhupinder Singh has explicitly stated in his statement during search, inter-alia, that all cash which was seized from his residential premises at Ludhiana (£409,000), Sandeep Kumar's premises at Ludhiana (£199,000) and from the Homeland House Premises at Mohali (£389,000) actually pertained to him. He admitted to having generated such proceeds of crime through mining related activities, including clearance of mining files and transfer of officials," read the ED document.
