Excise policy PMLA case: MP Sanjay Singh's counsel requires 200 days for inspection of documents

New Delhi [India], October 8 : The counsels for AAP MP Sanjay Singh, former Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal, Arun Pillai sought around 200 days time for inspection of un-relied documents filed alongwith charge sheet and supplementary charge sheets by the Enforcement Directorate (ED) in a Delhi excise policy money laundering case.
Former CM Arvind Kejriwal, Manish Sisodia, Sanjay Singh, K Kavitha and other accused appeared through video conferencing.
Special Judge Kaveri Baweja pulled up the counsels for a number of accused persons for not telling the more time they required for inspection of documents.
She expressed strong displeasure on the conduct of lawyers for not telling the time despite asking repeatedly and said, "You tell me how much time you required. Should I record that you are not telling the time you required for inspection."
Thereafter the counsel started to tell the time they required for inspection. Advocate Dr Farrukh Khan said that he requires 200 to 220 days for inspection subject to the volume of data and cooperation from the ED.
Meanwhile, ED's SPP Navin Matta informed the court that space for inspection of documents in ready and air conditioners will be installed today. He had shown a video for the preparedness to the court.
On this counsels objected and said they are being made to sit and inspect the documents in porta cabin for hours. They also said that the same is unhygienic, unsafe and inhabitable and that there is a monkey menace in the area.
After lengthy submissions, the court on Tuesday asked the counsels for accused persons to visit the room for inspection of documents at ED headquarters. They are also permitted to carry their phones inside and to make vidoe to show the condition of the place for inspection.
The counsels raised their objections regarding the unhygienic, inhabitable and unsafe conditions due to monkey menace. Thereafter the court asked the counsels to visit the room today.
Earlier, they were doing inspections in the conference room.
The matter has been listed for tomorrow for hearing. The counsel will visit the space for inspection and inform the court tomorrow.
On the last date of September 30, the court had asked the SPP Matta to visit the headquarters and to sort it out.
The Rouse Avenue court had taken a serious view on the submission that advocates are made to sit in a make shift arrangement and to inspect the documents at office of ED.
The advocates had also said that monkeys are always hovering around.
The special public prosecutor submitted that he would personally visit the office and sort it out.