By IANS,
Mumbai : Multi-billionaire and alleged tax evader Hasan Ali Khan’s Enforcement Directorate (ED) custody was Wednesday extended by a day by a Mumbai court after the probe agency contended that he was not co-operating with investigators.
Principal Sessions Judge M.L. Tahaliyani extended Khan’s ED custody.
The court came down heavily on ED Prosecutor N. Punde who did not produce the requisite evidence to justify the grounds for seeking Khan’s interrogation in custody.
On Tuesday, moving the remand application Punde said the ED had carried out raids at Khan’s home in Koregaon Park, Pune, last Monday and had seized several documents.
The ED needed to carry out forensic examination of several laptops and other documents seized from him, Punde said.
The probe agency said that Khan had not co-operated with investigators and it was feared that he may attempt to tamper with evidence.
The prosecutor pointed out that $8 billion were stashed away by him outside India and the ED required to interrogate him in custody.
Khan was brought to Mumbai from Pune late Monday and arrested early Tuesday morning.
Later, he was taken to Sir J.J. Hospital for a medical examination that lasted over four hours. He was later taken to the ED office at Nariman Point.
Khan Tuesday informed the court that he was suffering from hypertension, diabetes and a liver ailment.
The court ordered that medicines and home-cooked food could be given to him at the ED’s office.