Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Charu Aggarwal asked the CBI investigating officer to give all deficient documents annexed with the charge sheet to the accused, who told the court that they have not received the complete set.
The court fixed May 9 for completing the process of scrutiny of documents and further proceedings in the case.
Advocate Manish Jain and Vijay Aggarwal, who appeared for Bhangoo, moved an application under Section 207 of the CrPC seeking copies of the documents.
The charge sheet was filed against Bhangoo, his firms Pearl Agrotech Corporation Ltd (PACL), Pearls Golden Forest Ltd (PGF), and its promoters and directors Sukhdev Singh, Gurmeet Singh and Subrata Bhattacharya under various sections of the IPC and the Prize Chits and Money Circulation Schemes (Banning) Act, 1978.
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CBI has charged the accused for various alleged offences including criminal conspiracy, dishonestly receiving stolen property, cheating and forgery under the IPC and under sections 4 and 5 of the Prize Chits and Money Circulation Schemes (Banning) Act, 1978.
During the probe in the last two years, CBI has said it has found 1,300 bank accounts of the suspect company, their directors and associated firms.
CBI had claimed that huge money was bungled by accused by duping many investors by luring them with attractive land deals and it had frozen the group's assets, mostly fixed deposit receipts, to the tune of Rs 280 crore and an additional Rs 108 crore was deposited with Delhi High Court.
CBI has claimed in the FIR that PACL and PGF were running the schemes illegally and both firms were allegedly engaged in fraudulent activities including forgery in their operations.