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Court acquits Chandraswami in FERA case

Hindustan Times | By, New Delhi
Jun 05, 2010 11:37 PM IST

A Delhi court, on Saturday, acquitted self-styled godman, Chandraswami, in a 14-year-old Foreign Exchange Regulation Act (FERA) case.

A Delhi court, on Saturday, acquitted self-styled godman, Chandraswami, in a 14-year-old Foreign Exchange Regulation Act (FERA) case. The Enforcement Directorate (ED) had accused the godman of violating the FERA terms in a defamation suit filed by him 26 years ago.

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Additional Metropolitan Magistrate A.K. Pandey said the ED failed to establish that the “accused Nemi Chand Jain alias Chandraswami had the knowledge about deposit of the money (£6,000) in a defamation suit filed by him in 1986 in London against Lakhu Bhai Pathak.”

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Counsel for Chandraswami, Santosh Chauriah, said, “They did not know exactly who paid the money on his behalf.”

The ED had lodged a case against him under FERA in 1996, after receiving information from the Central Bureau of Investigation, which was probing his roles in various scams.

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