New Delhi [India], February 20 (ANI): The Delhi High Court on Friday issued discover to the Enforcement Directorate on common and interim bail pleas of Manoj Gaur, former CMD (Chairman & Managing Director) of Jaypee Infratech Ltd. He is in search of common in addition to interim bail in a cash laundering case.
His common bail plea was rejected by the Patiala House Court on February 16.
He surrendered earlier than the jail authorities a day earlier after the expiry of his interim bail. He was granted interim bail on the grounds of his mom’s well being situation.
Justice Anup Jairam Bhambhani issued discover to ED and sought a response. The excessive courtroom listed a daily bail listening to on April 27.
Gaur has additionally sought interim bail on the well being situation of his mom, who’s terminally sick.
The bench has listed the Interim bail for listening to on February 26. The courtroom has referred to as a medical standing report of Gaur’s mom.
Former CMD of Jaypee Infratech Ltd, Manoj Gaur, has moved the Delhi High Court for normal bail plea in a cash laundering case.
Gaur has been arrested and cost sheeted by the Enforcement Directorate (ED) in an alleged cash laundering case of greater than Rs 1,3000 crore. Gaur was arrested on November 13, 2025.
This case pertains to the alleged cash laundering of the cash of 25,000 residence consumers. Gaur is on interim bail granted on the grounds of his mom’s well being. He was arrested on November 13.
Senior advocate Siddharth Luthra and Advocate Dr. Farrukh Khan appeared for Manoj Gaur. Advocate Rahul Tyagi appeared for the ED and accepted discover.
Additional Sessions Judge (ASJ) Dhirendra Rana had rejected the bail plea of Manoj Gaur.
ED has opposed the bail plea and argued that it’s a case of alleged cash laundering of Rs 13,000 crores and there are 25,000 residence purchaser victims.
Patiala House Court on January 24 granted 14 days’ interim bail to Manoj Gaur on the well being situation of previous age mom. The order was challenged earlier than the High Court.
Counsel for accsued had said on the bail plea that Gaur’s detention, considered within the backdrop of an eight-year-old ED case, documentary allegations, absence of private achieve, statutory divestment of management over corporations, and critical medical infirmities, is grossly disproportionate and violative of Articles 14 and 21 of the Constitution of India.
ED had submitted that it’s a cash laundering case associated to the cash of Home Buyers. Accused individuals collected Rs. 13000 crores however didn’t use the identical to present lodging to residence consumers.
ED had mentioned that it arrested Manoj Gaur, former Executive Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of M/s Jaiprakash Associates Ltd. (JAL) and former Chairman and Managing Director of M/s Jaypee Infratech Ltd. (JIL), underneath Section 19 of the Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA), 2002.
The arrest happened following an in depth investigation and evaluation of proof gathered in the course of the ongoing probe in an ECIR recorded by the ED underneath PMLA in reference to the Jaypee Group, the company mentioned.
It was additionally mentioned that the ED initiated an investigation towards the Jaypee group primarily based on a number of FIRs registered by the Economic Offences Wings (EOW) of Delhi and Uttar Pradesh Police, primarily based on complaints filed by homebuyers of Jaypee Wishtown and Jaypee Greens tasks, alleging felony conspiracy, dishonest, and felony breach of belief towards the corporate and its promoters.
It is alleged that the funds collected from hundreds of homebuyers for the development and completion of residential tasks had been diverted for functions aside from building, leaving the homebuyers defrauded and their tasks incomplete, the company added.
ED investigation revealed that out of roughly Rs 14,599 Crore collected by JAL and JIL from homebuyers (as per claims admitted by NCLT), substantial quantities had been diverted for non-construction functions and siphoned off to associated group entities and trusts, together with Jaypee Sewa Sansthan (JSS), M/s Jaypee Healthcare Ltd. (JHL), and M/s Jaypee Sports International Ltd. (JSIL), the ED mentioned.
It is revealed in the course of the investigation that Manoj Gaur is the Managing Trustee of Jaypee Sewa Sansthan (JSS), which acquired a part of the diverted funds, the company claimed.
On 23 May 2025, the ED had carried out search operations at 15 places in Delhi, Noida, Ghaziabad, and Mumbai, together with the workplaces and premises of M/s Jaiprakash Associates Ltd. and M/s Jaypee Infratech Ltd. During the searches, ED seized a big quantity of monetary and digital information, together with paperwork evidencing the offence of cash laundering and diversion of funds, ED mentioned.
The company has alleged that the investigation has established the central function of Manoj Gaur within the planning and execution of the fund diversion by way of a posh internet of transactions inside the Jaypee Group and its related entities. (ANI)