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Rana Ayyub is alleged to have raised funds in the name of crowd funding and transferred them to his personal bank account.
The Supreme Court on Tuesday dismissed the petition of journalist Rana Ayyub. The Ghaziabad court had issued summons to him in the money laundering case. He challenged this summons in the Supreme Court. With the dismissal of the petition from there, it has become clear that the money laundering case against Rana Ayyub will now be tried in the PMLA court of Ghaziabad only. In such a situation, it is believed that soon Rana Ayyub may have to appear in the court.
Rana Ayyub went to Supreme Court to get relief from summons
The PMLA court of Ghaziabad had issued summons to Rana Ayyub and ordered him to appear on January 27. Challenging this summon, Rana Ayyub filed a petition in the Supreme Court through advocate Vrinda Grover. The Supreme Court held the first hearing on January 25 and requested the Ghaziabad court not to hear the summons on January 27.
The second hearing on this petition took place on 31 January. Job’s advocate said that Mumbai has jurisdiction over the entire matter. In such a case, the Ghaziabad court does not have jurisdiction to issue summons. That day the Supreme Court had reserved its order. On Tuesday, the Supreme Court dismissed Rana Ayyub’s petition.
FIR was registered in Indirapuram police station
Vikas Sankrityayan, the founder of ‘Hindu IT Cell’, had filed a money laundering case against Rana Ayub at Indirapuram police station in Ghaziabad last year. The ED investigated the case and filed the charge sheet in the Ghaziabad court recently.
Allegation- 2.69 crore funds came, spent only 29 lakhs
In the charge sheet filed in the PMLA court of Ghaziabad, the ED has said that Rana Ayyub had started three campaigns on the online crowdfunding platform Catto. Through these, funds were raised for slum dwellers and farmers between April-May 2020, for relief work in Assam, Bihar and Maharashtra between June-September 2020 and for Corona-affected people in May-June 2021.
Rana Ayyub received a donation of Rs 2.69 crore, out of which Rs 80.49 lakh came in foreign currency. After this, the Income Tax Department started an investigation against Rana Ayyub for violating the Foreign Contribution Regulation Act (FCRA), after which Ayyub returned the foreign donation.
According to the ED, the funds raised on the online platform first came into the accounts of Ayub’s father and sister and from there were transferred to Ayub’s personal account. Out of this, Ayyub opened a fixed account for himself by taking Rs 50 lakh, while transferred Rs 50 lakh to another bank account. Only Rs 29 lakh was used for relief work.