Stock Exchange Snooping: Mumbai Police Ex Chief Moves Court For Bail
NDTV
NSE phone-tapping case: Sanjay Pandey's petition is likely to come up for hearing on Tuesday before special judge Sunena Sharma.
Former Mumbai police commissioner Sanjay Pandey has moved a Delhi court seeking bail in a case of alleged phone tapping of NSE employees, claiming that the Enforcement Directorate (ED) proceedings against him were the result of a political fallout.
The petition is likely to come up for hearing on August 2 before special judge Sunena Sharma.
In his petition, Mr Pandey said he had investigated and prosecuted several high-profile and politically sensitive cases, and claimed that the present proceedings were "a political fallout of honest and sincere discharge of his duties as a senior police officer."
"The instant case is clearly motivated by political considerations and it is also evident from the fact that an offence that allegedly occurred between 2009 and 2017 is being investigated in 2022 i.e., 13 years after its purported commencement and five years after its purported closure; and that too within a week of the applicant emitting his office," he said.
