India News: NEW DELHI: The Enforcement Directorate on Friday raided premises linked to businessman Navneet Kalra and his associates in connection with a recent ca.
Navneet Kalra has claimed the consignment was kept for regular sale.
New Delhi:
The Enforcement Directorate on Friday raided at least 10 premises linked to businessman Navneet Kalra and his associates in Delhi-NCR as part of a money laundering probe linked to a recent case of alleged hoarding and black-marketing of oxygen concentrators, officials said.
The concentrators are in short supply as they are being anxiously scoured by those gasping for breath amid the second wave of the COVID-19 pandemic in the country.
Official sources said the searches are being conducted on at least 10 places in the national capital region under provisions of the Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA).
The Enforcement Directorate recovered several laptops, property documents and 150 whiskey bottles from properties linked to businessman Navneet Kalra and his associates on Friday. Kalra is the main accused in the oxygen concentrators black-marketing case in Delhi.
ED searches 13 locations linked to Kalra, Duggal in O2 concentrators case (Ld)
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O2 concentrator case: Navneet Kalra sent to 3 days police custody Image Source: IANS News
New Delhi, May 21 : The Enforcement Directorate (ED) on Friday carried out searches at 13 premises belonging to businessman Navneet Kalra and Gagan Duggal in Delhi and Haryana s Gurugram in connection with the alleged oxygen concentrator black marketing case.
According to informed sources in the ED, the duo had imported more than 7,000 oxygen concentrators from China in the past one month and sold them to the public at exorbitant prices by claiming that the concentrators were made with German technology.
HC declines to pass order on Matrix request to remove imports from customs to avoid demurrage
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HC declines to pass order on Matrix request to remove imports from customs to avoid demurragePTI
Last Updated: May 21, 2021, 07:30 PM IST
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Matrix urged the court to allow it to remove its goods from the customs warehouse where its imports are lying presently, to avoid payment of demurrage charges for the duration the consignment is lying with the customs authorities.
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The Delhi High Court on Friday declined to pass any orders on Matrix Cellular s request for permission to remove from customs their COVID-19 related imports, to avoid further demurrage charges, and store it at any location specified by the police. The company made the oral request before Justice Asha Menon during hearing of its plea seeking to restrain the police from taking any coercive measures like seizure of its oxygen concentrators or other related products it would be importing or has imp