Jacqueline Fernandez Seeks permission From Delhi Court To Travel Abroad, Courts Seeks Reply From ED

Jacqueline Fernandez on Tuesday moved an application seeking permission to travel to Bahrain from December 23. Delhi court listed the matter for December 22.

Jacqueline Fernandez, who was summoned by the Enforcement Directorate several times in connection with the investigation, was named as an accused for the first time in the supplementary charge sheet. 

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New Delhi: Jacqueline Fernandez on Tuesday moved an application seeking permission to travel to Bahrain from December 23. Delhi court directed Enforcement Directorate to file a reply and listed the matter for December 22. Jacqueline is an accused in a Rs 200 crore extortion case also involving alleged conman Sukesh Chandrashekar, seeking to travel abroad. 

According to PTI, Special Judge Shailendra Malik issued notice to the ED and directed it to file its reply to the actor's application seeking permission to travel to Bahrain from December 23.  Fernandez also appeared before the court during the brief hearing. 

The court had on November 15 granted regular bail to the actress who has never been arrested in the case. 

It had on August 31 taken cognizance of a supplementary charge sheet filed by the Enforcement Directorate and asked Fernandez to appear before the court. 

Fernandez, who was summoned by the Enforcement Directorate several times in connection with the investigation, was named as an accused for the first time in the supplementary charge sheet. 

The ED's earlier charge sheet and a supplementary charge sheet did not mention her as an accused. 

Meanwhile, on December 12 Bollywood actress Nora Fatehi had filed a defamation case in a court  against Jacqueline, alleging that the latter made defamatory allegations against her for "malicious reasons" and to destroy her career. 

According to Nora, Jacqueline sought to criminally defame her in order to destroy her career to further her own interests, since they are both working in the same industry and have similar backgrounds, amongst other reasons. 

Contending that her image is being tarnished, she, stressing that artistes' career is solely based on their reputation, had alleged that defamatory remarks were made against her by Jacqueline to ensure her financial, social, and personal downfall. 

In the complaint accessed by IANS, Nora had also claimed that Jacqueline has also maliciously attempted to absolve herself from her actions in another criminal proceedings which are absolutely unrelated to her. 

"Jacqueline Fernandez is also an actress, and is pretty well known in the film industry. She has also been made an accused in the Sukesh Chandrashekhar Rs 200 crore money-laundering case by the Enforcement Directorate. That the defamatory imputations were made by Fernandez due to malicious reasons. Apart from that, Fernandez sought to criminally defame the complainant in order to destroy her career to further her own interests since she is also in Bollywood," read the complaint moved by Nora through her counsel advocate Vikram Chauhan. 

Nora had further alleged that Jacqueline made a false statement against her despite being an actress too. 

(With inputs from agencies)