Court drops PMLA charges against ex-MLA Kanda in Supertech case

The Enforcement Directorate (ED) cannot assume the role of questioning the fairness of contractual terms entered into between private parties, a Delhi court has ruled as it dropped money laundering charges against former Sirsa legislator and businessman Gopal Goyal Kanda and his brother Gobind Kumar Goyal in connection with the case involving realty firm Supertech Limited and its chairman Ram Kishore Arora.

- HT Correspondent

ED named Kanda, promoter of MDLR Group and his brother as accused in its supplementary charge sheet filed in January this year in the PMLA case against Supertech. The case stems from allegations that Supertech collected advances from nearly 600 homebuyers and borrowed from banks, which were diverted to buy properties in Gurugram instead of completing existing projects in Noida. ED filed a charge sheet naming Arora and nin