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The Bombay High Court on Thursday granted bail to Deepak Kochhar, husband of former ICICI Bank CEO Chanda Kochhar, in a money laundering case registered by the Enforcement Directorate (ED).
Kocchar had approached the high court after a special court in the city rejected his bail in December last year.
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Justice PD Naik of the high court granted bail to him on merits on Thursday.
Kocchar was arrested by the ED in September last year under the Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA) in the alleged ICICI Bank-Videocon money laundering case.
The ED registered the money laundering case following an FIR registered by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) against the Kochhar couple, Videocon Group promoter Venugopal Dhoot, and others for allegedly causing loss to ICICI Bank by sanctioning loans to the Videocon Group of companies in contravention to the policies of ICICI Bank.
Kochhar had argued that the ED had taken note of all the alleged proceeds of crime in the case, so there was no chance of him creating any third party rights, or interfering with the probe if out on bail.
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