By IANS,
Puducherry : Puducherry Lt.Governor Iqbal Singh has denied he has received any summons from the Enforcement Directorate (ED) for alleged links with Hasan Ali Khan, said to be the country’s biggest money launderer and tax evader.Officer on Special Duty (OSD) at Raj Niwas J.P.Singh told reporters here Saturday that the lt.governor is in Delhi and told him over phone that he has not been served any summons so far by the ED or any other investigative agency.
He said the lt.governor is in Delhi on official work since April 13 after voting in the assembly elections.
The ED would like to question Iqbal Singh in connection with the recommendation made by him for Hasan Ali Khan to get a passport.
According to the OSD, Amlendu Pandey, a Congress leader in Bihar, had approached Iqbal Singh when he was a Rajya Sabha member (between 1992-1998) with a request to help a person known to him to get a passport urgently to get treated abroad.
J.P. Singh said the application was forwarded by Iqbal Singh to the then external affairs minister I.K. Gujral.
Gujral in turn forwarded the passport application to the Regional Passport office in Patna, he said.