‘ED approach in Rana case not active ’

Mumbai: A special

PMLA

court here, granting bail to Yes Bank founder Rana Kapoor and Gautam

Thapar

in a case connected to sale of a property, observed that “Enforcement’ Directorate (ED) has not shown any active approach to begin the trial of at least a single case from out of all other cases, pending since long.”Special Judge M G Deshpande said, “Trial of PMLA case is in fact a trial of two cases. It is a very big and lengthy trial as the trial of case pertaining to scheduled offence has to be conducted simultaneously with the trial of PMLA case. Not a single case pending in this court has been tried and disposed by judgment.” The court noted that Thapar was “admittedly not arrested during investigation.” tnn