{"id":35442,"date":"2014-10-07T13:14:38","date_gmt":"2014-10-07T07:44:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.in\/news\/?p=35442"},"modified":"2014-10-07T13:14:38","modified_gmt":"2014-10-07T07:44:38","slug":"agustawestland-chopper-deal-case-businessman-gautam-khaitan-sent-judicial-custody","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/agustawestland-chopper-deal-case-businessman-gautam-khaitan-sent-judicial-custody","title":{"rendered":"AgustaWestland chopper deal case: Businessman Gautam Khaitan sent to judicial custody"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.in\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/AgustaWestland-chopper.png?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"35443\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/agustawestland-chopper-deal-case-businessman-gautam-khaitan-sent-judicial-custody\/agustawestland-chopper\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2014\/10\/AgustaWestland-chopper.png?fit=240%2C160&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"240,160\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"AgustaWestland chopper\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2014\/10\/AgustaWestland-chopper.png?fit=240%2C160&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-35443\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.in\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/AgustaWestland-chopper.png?resize=240%2C160&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"AgustaWestland chopper\" width=\"240\" height=\"160\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2014\/10\/AgustaWestland-chopper.png?w=240&amp;ssl=1 240w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2014\/10\/AgustaWestland-chopper.png?resize=150%2C100&amp;ssl=1 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 240px) 100vw, 240px\" \/><\/a>Businessman Gautam Khaitan, who was arrested by the Enforcement Directorate (ED) in connection with alleged kickbacks in the Rs 3,600-crore AgustaWestland chopper deal case, has been sent to judicial custody till tomorrow by a Delhi court.<\/p>\n<p>Metropolitan magistrate Snigdha Sarvaria had yesterday sent Khaitan in two-day judicial custody after ED submitted that he was not required for further custodial interrogation.<\/p>\n<p>Khaitan was produced before the court after expiry of his five-day ED custody.<\/p>\n<p>ED had earlier alleged in the court that Rs 360 crore was paid as kickbacks in the entire deal.<\/p>\n<p>Khaitan has filed a bail application, through advocate Pramod Kumar Dubey, on which the chief metropolitan magistrate had issued notice to ED to give its response by tomorrow.<\/p>\n<p>The bail plea would also be taken up for hearing tomorrow when Khaitan would be produced in court.<\/p>\n<p>In the bail plea, Khaitan said he should be enlarged on bail as he has always cooperated during the investigation and there was no apprehension that he would flee from justice.<\/p>\n<p>ED submitted that Khaitan was on board of Chandigarh-based company Aeromatrix which was allegedly a front firm for the financial dealings in the chopper deal.<\/p>\n<p>Khaitan&#8217;s counsel, however, had told the court that his client was nowhere connected with the day-to-day affairs of the firm and he had resigned from the post way back in October 2010.<\/p>\n<p>Khaitan was arrested under provisions of the Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA) by ED which had lodged a case in July this year against Khaitan, former IAF chief SP Tyagi and 19 others in the VVIP chopper deal case to probe alleged kickbacks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Businessman Gautam Khaitan, who was arrested by the Enforcement Directorate (ED) in connection with alleged kickbacks in the Rs 3,600-crore AgustaWestland chopper deal case, has been sent to judicial custody till tomorrow by a Delhi court. 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