Pankaj, businessmen Asif Balwa, Vinod Goenka and others have challenged the non-bailable warrants issued by the special court for Prevention of Money Laundering Act cases here. They have also sought pre-arrest bail from the HC.
Last week, the vacation bench had granted them interim protection from arrest.
ED counsel Poornima Kantharia today submitted reply affidavits, following which the petitioners' lawyers sought time to file rejoinders.
Aabad Ponda, lawyer of one of the petitioners, argued that ED had already recorded the petitioners' statements and it did not arrest them at that point.
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The High Court was also informed that the special PMLA court today cancelled the non-bailable warrants issued against Asif Balwa, Vinod Goenka and Sanjay Kakade and directed them to appear before it on June 6.
According to ED, the accused conspired with Chhagan Bhujbal, former PWD minister, to divert or 'launder' the "kickbacks" received by him through their firms.
ED, on March 30 this year, filed a 11,500-page charge- sheet naming Chhagan Bhujbal, Pankaj, Bhujbal's nephew Sameer, and the firms such as D B Realty, Balwa group, Neelkamal Realtors and Builders, Neelkamal Central Apartment LLP and Kakade Infrastructure.
The charges are related to alleged irregularities in the construction of the state guest house 'Maharashtra Sadan' in Delhi and the Kalina land-grabbing case in Mumbai.