A Delhi court on Saturday dismissed the bail application of a woman director of two Dubai-based companies in a money laundering case connected with the ₹3,600 Augusta Westland VVIP helicopter bribery case
Dismissing her bail application, Special Judge Arvind Kumar sent accused Shivani Saxena, a director in Messrs UHY Saxena and Messrs Matrix Holdings along with her husband, to judicial custody. She was earlier in the custody of the Enforcement Directorate.
She had sought bail on grounds of being a woman and that she was suffering from a tail bone fracture.
Counsel for the Directorate, Naveen Kumar Matta, opposed her plea, submitting that she might tamper with evidence and flee from justice if granted bail.
The court had on July 26 extended her police custody for three more days after the probe agency submitted that she was required to be confronted with various incriminating documents to ascertain the proceeds of the crime and the money trail.
