New Delhi [India], January 12 (ANI): The Enforcement Directorate (ED) on Monday filed a Prosecution Complaint (Charge sheet) towards Manoj Gaur, former CMD, Jaypee Infratech Ltd, in Patiala House Court.
A cost sheet is filed on the court docket of the Principal District and Session decide. It can be assigned to a decide by Tuesday.
Meanwhile, the Additional Sessions Judge (ASJ) has listed the primary case and bail of Manoj Gaur for listening to on January 17, for the ED’s reply and arguements.
The ED alleges proceeds of Rs 13883 crores. Former CMD, Jaypee Infratech Ltd., Manoj Gaur, has filed an everyday bail utility.
He was arrested by the Enforcement Directorate (ED) in a case registered in 2018. He has been operating in judicial custody since November 18, 2025. He was arrested on November 13, 2025.
The bail utility has been moved by way of advocate Farrukh Khan. The plea highlights that Gaur is 61 years outdated and has a 30-year medical historical past.
It is said that Gaur’s detention, considered towards the backdrop of an eight-year-old ED case, documentary allegations, absence of non-public achieve, statutory divestment of management over corporations, and severe medical infirmities, is grossly disproportionate andviolative of Articles 14 and 21 of the Constitution of India.
It is additional submitted that the continued incarceration of Manoj Gaur, regardless of the absence of any investigative necessity, would quantity to punishment previous to conviction, and would offend the settled precept that bail is the rule and jail is the exception, significantly in circumstances involving extended investigation and trial.
Manoj Gaur has deep roots in society and has substantial household, social, {and professional} ties inside the jurisdiction of this Court, the plea stated.
According to the ED, it’s a money-laundering case involving funds from Home Buyers. Accused individuals collected Rs. 13000 crores however didn’t use the identical to offer lodging to dwelling patrons.
ED had stated 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), beneath Section 19 of the Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA), 2002.
The arrest passed off following an in depth investigation and evaluation of proof gathered in the course of the ongoing probe, an ECIR recorded by the ED beneath the PMLA, in reference to the Jaypee Group, the company stated in a launch.
It can also be stated that the ED initiated an investigation towards the Jaypee group on the idea of a number of FIRs registered by the Economic Offences Wings (EOW) of Delhi and Uttar Pradesh Police, based mostly on complaints filed by homebuyers of Jaypee Wishtown and Jaypee Greens tasks, alleging prison conspiracy, dishonest, and prison breach of belief towards the corporate and its promoters.
The company alleged that funds collected from 1000’s of homebuyers for the development and completion of residential tasks have been diverted for non-construction functions, leaving the homebuyers defrauded and their tasks incomplete.
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 have 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 stated.
The investigation additionally revealed that Manoj Gaur is the Managing Trustee of Jaypee Sewa Sansthan (JSS), which obtained a part of the diverted funds, the Agency claimed.
Earlier, on 23 May 2025, the ED had carried out search operations at 15 areas in Delhi, Noida, Ghaziabad, and Mumbai, together with the places of work 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 stated.
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 fancy internet of transactions inside the Jaypee Group and its related entities.
Counsel for the accused opposed the ED’s remand utility. It was submitted that the ECIR was lodged in 2018. An arrest has been made after virtually seven years.
Advocate Dr Farrukh Khan submitted that the ECIR is from 2018. What stopped ED from 2018 to 2025? Now, Gaur has been illegally arrested.
The counsel had additional submitted that the accused appeared earlier than the ED and cooperated within the investigation. He additionally emailed the IO and requested one other date to seem.
He was known as and was made to take a seat until 8 at evening, the counsel added. JayPee Infratech Ltd. (JIL) went into insolvency in 2017, and the movement was handed.
It was additionally submitted that there was no evasion by Manoj Gaur. He is a sick man. When an organization is dissolved, why ought to the person be despatched in custody, counsel questioned.
First FIR was lodged in 2017, and thereafter. My assertion has been recorded. We are within the 12 months 2025. Counsel for the accused had argued. (ANI)