Mumbai: Pune stud farm owner Hasan Ali Khan, accused of stashing away huge amount of black money in banks abroad, surrendered before the Enforcement Directorate (ED) on Thursday night after the Supreme Court cancelled his bail and remanded him to four days ED custody.
"I respect the Supreme Court's order," said Ali while entering the premises of the ED in south Mumbai.
The apex court remanded Khan in the custody of Enforcement Directorate for four days after pulling up the trial court judge who had granted him bail, dismissing the agency's plea for his remand in a money laundering case.
The apex court initially remanded Khan, 53, in the ED's custody for 72 hours but extended it to four days following a plea made by Solicitor General Gopal Subramaniam.
A Mumbai court had on March 11 rejected the ED's plea for custodial interrogation of Khan on the ground that the agency had not gathered sufficient evidence or made any case to justify its plea for Khan's custodial interrogation.
Khan is also facing a Rs 70,000 crore tax demand notice from the Income-Tax Department as well as the ED probe.
The ED had arrested Khan on March 7 after being pulled up by the Supreme Court for its failure to ensure his custodial interrogation. But the trial court had let him off.
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