Overview

• Justices Dipankar Datta and Augustine George Masih refused to interfere and gave Fernandez liberty to return at an appropriate stage.
• Fernandez had challenged the Delhi High Court’s July 3 order that rejected her bid to quash the ECIR and related proceedings, and the Supreme Court declined interim relief.
• The Enforcement Directorate has named her as an accused and attached assets of roughly ₹7.2 crore as alleged proceeds of crime.
• The ED alleges she accepted luxury gifts from Sukesh Chandrashekhar, deleted phone data, and initially hid transactions, while she maintains she lacked knowledge and was duped.
• The wider case stems from an alleged ₹200–215 crore extortion scheme targeting spouses of former Ranbaxy promoters, with Chandrashekhar currently in a Delhi jail.