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The Supreme Court connected Tuesday (January 6, 2026) said that the interim bail granted to writer Mahesh Langa successful December successful a money laundering case volition proceed to run adjacent arsenic the Directorate of Enforcement (ED) informed the tribunal astir the commencement of proceedings successful the case.
Appearing earlier a Bench headed by the Chief Justice of India Surya Kant, Solicitor General Tushar Mehta, representing the ED, stated that the proceedings was apt to beryllium concluded successful 3 months. He successfully urged the apical tribunal to defer the proceeding for 3 months.
Senior advocator Kapil Sibal, appearing for Mr. Langa, said his lawsuit had cooperated with the trial, and witnesses had been examined.
“You proceed to cooperate. It volition beryllium over,” Chief Justice Kant addressed Mr. Langa’s side.
The chargesheet successful the lawsuit refers to lone an magnitude of ₹68 lakh, Mr. Sibal said. But Mr. Mehta stated it was not true. Mr. Sibal said successful an speech that “nowadays governments tin spell beyond the chargesheet”.
“We had seen thing [in the case], that is wherefore we gave bail... Let the interim bail continue,” the CJI remarked.
On December 15, portion granting Mr. Langa the interim relief, the Bench had directed the peculiar tribunal proceeding the lawsuit to instrumentality it up connected a day-to-day ground for information of the complaint and signaling the statements of witnesses. The apical tribunal had ordered some Mr. Langa and the ED to cooperate with the proceedings and not instrumentality immoderate adjournments.
The Gujarat Police had registered First Information Reports (FIRs) successful Rajkot and Ahmedabad connected the ground of complaints filed by Superintendents of Central Goods and Services Tax (CGST), Anti-Evasion Section. The allegations successful the 2 cases notation to utilizing fraudulent means to get GST registration to person and transportation bogus input taxation credit.
