Overview

• A bench of Justices Dipankar Datta and Augustine George Masih is listed to take up the matter on September 22, according to the Supreme Court causelist.
• Fernandez challenges the Delhi High Court’s July 3 order refusing to quash the ED’s ECIR and a supplementary complaint, and she seeks an interim stay of the trial against her.
• Her petition argues she lacked knowledge that gifts were crime proceeds and notes the ED treated her as a prosecution witness in the predicate offence.
• The ED has named her a co-accused in a Rs 215-crore case, alleging acceptance of luxury gifts worth about Rs 7 crore and deletion or concealment of mobile and transaction data.
• Investigators say assets worth roughly Rs 7.2 crore linked to her were attached as proceeds of crime, with Pinky Irani cited as a facilitator and Nora Fatehi examined as a witness.