The Delhi High Court on Wednesday adjourned to September 18 the plea filed by Bollywood actress Jacqueline Fernandez, seeking the quashing of the ECIR (FIR) and supplementary chargesheet filed by the Enforcement Directorate (ED) in a Rs 200 crore money laundering case involving conman Sukesh Chandrashekhar.

The court is scheduled to hear the case on September 18 for final arguments.

In her plea, Jacqueline Fernandez challenged the ED’s complaint and the second supplementary chargesheet under Sections 3 and 4 of the Prevention of Money Laundering Act, 2002.

The Bollywood actress contested the Enforcement Directorate’s complaint and their supplementary chargesheet, which names her as an accused in the Rs 200 crore extortion case involving conman Sukesh Chandrashekhar.

The petition notes that in the case registered by Delhi Police, Fernandez has been presented as a “prosecution witness,” arguing that this should lead to a “favourable conclusion” in her favor.

In her plea to the Delhi High Court, Jacqueline Fernandez claimed that she did not commit any offense of money laundering as defined under the scheme of the Prevention of Money Laundering Act, 2002, nor was she in “possession of proceeds of crime.”

It further states that the complaint by Aditi Singh, wife of former Ranbaxy owner Shivinder Singh, “does not allege that the petitioner (Jacqueline Fernandez) in any manner actively aided or abetted the main accused, Sukesh Chandrashekhar, to commit the alleged offenses.”

Conman Sukesh Chandrashekhar, currently lodged in Tihar Jail in Delhi, had allegedly extorted over Rs 200 crore from Aditi Singh between June 2020 and May 2021.

Jacqueline Fernandez’s plea to the Delhi High Court asserts that the evidence presented by the Enforcement Directorate “unequivocally proves” that the actor is an “innocent victim of Sukesh Chandrashekhar’s maliciously targeted attack.”