Jacqueline Fernandez seeks travel permission, attends court for money laundering case linked to conman Sukesh

Actor Jacqueline Fernandez on Tuesday arrived at Delhi’s Patiala House Court in connection with the ₹200 crores money laundering, involving ‘conman’ Sukesh Chandrashekhar. The actor has applied for permission to travel amid the ongoing investigation. She will be travelling to Bahrain on December 23, as per her application. (Also read: Nora Fatehi shares cryptic post amid defamation row with Jacqueline Fernandez)

According to news agency ANI, the court has directed the application to Enforcement Directorate (ED) who is yet to reply in the matter. “Actor Jacqueline Fernandes moves an application seeking permission to travel to Bahrain from December 23. The court directed ED to file a reply and listed the matter for December 22,” tweeted the agency.

A video of Jacqueline arriving at the court premises also surfaced online. The case is connected to alleged conman Sukesh Chandrashekhar, in which Jacqueline is also an accused.

Previously, on December 12, actor Nora Fatehi filed defamation law suit against Jacqueline Fernandez in connection with ₹200 crore extortion case in which Sukesh Chandrashekhar is the main accused. Her suit is against Jacqueline and a few media organisations for allegedly ‘trying to tarnish her reputation’ and caused her loss of work in the industry.

Nora said in her defamation suit, “It has started to become evident that the aforementioned rivals being unable to compete with the Complainant fairly in the industry have started to try and tarnish her reputation which would cause her loss of work.”

However, Jacqueline’s lawyer, advocate Prashant Patil said that his client has never said anything in public about Nora Fatehi and hence, the question of defaming her should not arise. He told ETimes, “Jacqueline has not made any statement in front of any electronic or print media against Nora or for that matter, any other person. She has consciously avoided talking about the Enforcement Directorate proceedings. Till date she has maintained the sanctity of law and because the matter is sub-judice she has always avoided to speak in front of print and social media. Having said that, we have not received any official copy of the suit filed by Nora. Once we receive an official confirmation or an order of the Honourable Court, we will respond to it legally.”

Earlier, Jacqueline was granted bail on a personal bond of ₹2 lakh by the court in the ₹200-crore money laundering case involving conman Sukesh Chandrashekar. The actor will be next seen in Rohit Shetty’s upcoming Cirkus, starring Ranveer Singh.