Charges mounted versus dancing bar proprietor Raju Shetty in money laundering state of affairs related to 2013 authorities raid|Representative Photo
Mumbai: Seven years after submitting a prosecution difficulty versus a dancing bar proprietor, the distinctive Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA) court docket on Thursday mounted prices versus him. The charged Raju Shetty’s dancing bar remained in debate after an authorities raid, through which nearly 90 girls had been saved in May 2013.
The authorities had truly recuperated Rs1.15 crore cash and jewellery price Rs23.51 lakh within the raid. Shetty’s 2 co-owners, moreover charged in case, are at present deceased. They had been decided as Jayram Shetty and Shobha Jayram Shetty.
As per the prosecution state of affairs, the Thane authorities had truly robbed Kapal bar and Dimple lodge on the night of May 2, 2013 based mostly upon information by an NGO. The prosecution asserted that the women had been found “herded in the congested bar hall gesticulating sexually towards the customers with the intention to lure them for flesh trade”.
The state of affairs was signed up with Panvel authorities. Later, the Enforcement Directorate (ED), as properly, began a probe proper into money laundering. The ED had truly submitted a prosecution difficulty in December 2018 versus Shetty and his companions. The agency asserted that Shetty carried out the flesh occupation underneath the garments of answer bar.
