Big relief to Jet Airways founder Naresh Goyal, Bombay High Court quashes Enforcement Directorate’s FIR

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Mumbai : The Bombay High Court on Thursday quashed the Enforcement Case Information Report (ECIR) lodged by the Enforcement Directorate (ED) against Jet Airways founder Naresh Goyal and his wife Anita Goyal in an alleged money laundering case. The ECIR, the central probe agency, was based on an FIR lodged by the police against the Goyals for alleged cheating and forgery on a complaint by ‘Akbar Travels’.

After hearing both sides, a division bench of Justice Revati Mohite Dere and Justice Prithviraj Chavan quashed the ECIR registered on 20 February 2020 and all proceedings against the Goyal couple on the grounds of being ‘illegal and contrary to law’. Generally, ECIR is similar to FIR in a way, which is registered by the police, Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) or any other agency on the basis of a criminal case.

Earlier, the Goyal couple’s lawyers Ravi Kadam and Aabad Ponda had argued that the ECIR was registered on the basis of a complaint lodged with the Mumbai Police in 2018, but in March 2020 the police filed a final report saying that they had Nothing concrete was found and this dispute seems to be of civil nature. The magistrate’s court had accepted this report.

The police had lodged an FIR against the Goyals for alleged cheating and forgery on the basis of a complaint lodged by Akbar Travels. The travel agency had alleged that it had incurred a loss of Rs 46 crore after the airline stopped operating flights from October 2018.

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