Money laundering case: Actor Jacqueline Fernandez withdraws plea from Supreme Court

Subscribed with another email? Logout and Login with that one. Account subscription benefits alongside Premium Stories, Editorials, Opinions and more. Unlock these with Subscription The View From India Looking at World Affairs from the Indian perspective. First Day First Show News and reviews from the world of cinema and streaming. Today's Cache Your download of the top 5 technology stories of the day. Science For All The weekly newsletter from science writers takes the jargon out of science and puts the fun in! Data Point Decoding the headlines with facts, figures, and numbers THEdge At the cutting edge of education and careers Health Matters Ramya Kannan writes to you on getting to good health, and staying there Gender Agenda Stories from beyond the binary. The Hindu On Books Books of the week, reviews, excerpts, new titles and features. Published - June 25, 2026 02:48 pm IST - New Delhi Actor Jacqueline Fernandez arrives at Patiala House Court in connection with a ₹200-crore money laundering case linked to alleged conman Sukesh Chandrasekhar (unseen), in New Delhi. File | Photo Credit: PTI The Supreme Court on Thursday (June 25, 2026) permitted Bollywood actor Jacqueline Fernandez to withdraw her plea challenging a Delhi court order to frame charges against her in a ₹200 crore money laundering case. “Counsel for the petitioner [Fernandez] has sought permission to withdraw this special leave petition with liberty to avail appropriate remedy in accordance with law,” a Bench of Justices B.V. Nagarathna and Joymalya Bagchi said. The Supreme Court permitted the withdrawal of petition with the liberty as sought by the petitioner. A Delhi court on May 30 ordered framing of charges against the actor, alleged conman Sukesh Chandrashekar and 15 others in the case. The actor had moved the Supreme Court against the order. The trial court also directed that charges be framed against Chandrashekar and 20 others for various offences, including under the stringent MCOCA provisions, in another case registered by the city police’s special cell. On June 3, setting the stage for trial, a Delhi court formally framed charges in the money laundering case. On June 11, Supreme Court judge Justice Prashant Kumar Mishra recused himself from hearing the actor’s plea. Ms. Fernandez, who was was summoned by the Enforcement Directorate (ED) several times in connection with the probe, was named an accused for the first time in a supplementary charge sheet filed by the agency. The ED alleged in a second supplementary complaint that Ms. Fernandez was in constant touch with Chandrashekar and received valuable gifts from him through his associate Pinky Irani. According to the prosecution, Chandrashekar was running an organised criminal network from inside jail and impersonating senior government officials, including those from the Prime Minister’s Office (PMO), the Ministry of Home Affairs, and the Ministry of Law and Justice. It claimed that the accused induced complainant Aditi Singh and her family members to part with huge sums of money by using spoofed calls, encrypted applications and fabricated identities. The ED alleged that Chandrashekar generated proceeds of crime amounting to more than ₹200 crore through extortion, cheating, impersonation and criminal intimidation, and thereafter concealed, possessed, transferred, layered and projected the same as untainted property with the help of his associates. Copyright© 2026, THG PUBLISHING PVT LTD. or its affiliated companies. All rights reserved. Terms & conditions | Institutional Subscriber Comments have to be in English, and in full sentences. They cannot be abusive or personal. Please abide by our community guidelines for posting your comments. We have migrated to a new commenting platform. If you are already a registered user of The Hindu and logged in, you may continue to engage with our articles. If you do not have an account please register and login to post comments. Users can access their older comments by logging into their accounts on Vuukle.

Money laundering case: Actor Jacqueline Fernandez withdraws plea from Supreme Court

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