SC junks Jacqueline’s plea in money laundering case

The Supreme Court on Monday refused to interfere with an order dismissing actor Jacqueline Fernandez’s plea to quash an Enforcement Directorate ECIR (equivalent to an FIR) in the Rs 200 crore money laundering case involving alleged conman Sukesh Chandrasekhar.

“You withdraw this. Come at an appropriate stage. That would be the better option. We will not interfere at this stage,” a Bench of Justice Dipankar Datta and Justice Augustine George Masih told senior advocate Mukul Rohatgi, who represented Fernandez.

The Bench, however, gave liberty to the petitioner to approach the top court at an appropriate stage.

Rohatgi told the Bench there was no allegation that Fernandez helped Chandrasekhar in laundering Rs 200 crore.

However, the Bench said, “The allegation is that it was given to you