The Supreme Court on Monday declined to overturn a Delhi High Court ruling, which upheld the dismissal of actor Jacqueline Fernandez's plea to set aside an ECIR (the equivalent of an FIR) in a ₹ 200 crore money laundering case involving the alleged conman Sukesh Chandrasekhar, news agency PTI reported.

“We will not interfere at this stage,” a bench of Justices Dipankar Datta and Augustine George Masih told senior advocate Mukul Rohatgi, who represented Fernandez.

The actor is an accused in the money laundering case filed against Chandrasekhar and had appeared before the Enforcement Directorate for questioning in the investigation.

The Delhi Police had charged Chandrasekhar with allegedly defrauding the spouses of Ranbaxy's former promoters, Shivinder Singh and Malvinder Singh, of ₹

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