ED to move Supreme Court in Hasan Ali case

Hasan Ali Khan is a 56-year-old alleged money-launderer

Stung by a Mumbai court's rejection of its plea for custodial interrogation of Hasan Ali Khan, the Enforcement Directorate today moved the Supreme Court challenging refusal of its plea against the Pune-based stud farm owner allegedly involved in stashing huge amount of black money abroad.A bench of justices B Sudershan Reddy and S S Nijjar would take up the plea at 2 pm.The bench had earlier chided the Centre for failing to subject Khan and other alleged money launderers to custodial interrogation.In pursuant of the apex court's direction, the ED had moved a remand application before the court of Principal Sessions Judge M L Tahaliyani on March 11, which, however, rejected the Directorate's plea on the ground that the agency could not gather sufficient material in justification of its plea.