Court permits ED to interrogate gold case accused

The Enforcement Directorate will question Sarith, Swapna Suresh and Sandeep Nair in judicial custody for three days from Tuesday. Ernakulam Principal Sessions Court also allowed the accused to contact advocates if needed.

Ernakulam: Ernakulam Principal Sessions Court has permitted Enforcement Directorate (ED) to question Sarith, Swapna Suresh and Sandeep Nair, in connection with the money laundering case, while they remain under judicial custody.

On Monday, the Principal Sessions Court considering Enforcement Directorate’s plea seeking custody of Sarith the first accused, Swapna Suresh the second accused and Sandeep Nair the fourth accused has permitted the ED officials to interrogate the key accused persons in the jail for three days from Tuesday.

The ED officials have been told to interrogate them between 10 am and 4 pm, with a break of 30 minutes after every 2 hours of questioning. The Court has also said that the accused must be allowed to contact their advocates if needed.

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With this, the ED investigators would be able to elicit further details from Sarith, Swapna and Sandeep based on the information they have got while questioning M Shivasankar, the 5th accused in the case, who is still under the ED custody.

The Court has permitted the ED’s request to question the accused, who have been already interrogated earlier, yet again, based on the new developments in the investigation after arresting and interrogating Shivasankar late last week.

Shivasankar has been under ED custody and continues to be questioned in connection with the money laundering case.