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Indian SC dismisses Jacqueline Fernandez's plea in money laundering case
The Island
|September 24, 2025
The Supreme Court of India, on Monday, refused to interfere with a Delhi High Court order dismissing actress Jacqueline Fernandez's plea to quash ECIR (equivalent to FIR) in an INRs 200 crore money laundering case involving alleged conman Sukesh Chandrasekhar.
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"We will not interfere at this stage," a bench of Justices Dipankar Datta and Augustine George Masih told senior advocate Mukul Rohatgi, who represented Fernandez.
This story is from the September 24, 2025 edition of The Island.
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