AgustaWestland accused Rajeev Saxena (centre) (Source: Reuters) AgustaWestland accused Rajeev Saxena (centre) (Source: Reuters)

Dubai-based businessman Rajiv Saxena, accused in the AgustaWestland VVIP chopper money-laundering case, approached a Delhi special court on Wednesday to become an “approver”. The move comes, two days after Saxena was granted regular bail by a Special Judge Arvind Kumar considering his “serious medical” condition. He was on interim bail since February 14.

Urging the court to “tender pardon” to him, Saxena in his application said that the court shall pass “order as it may deem fit and proper in the interest of justice”.

To which, the special judge sought to know the Enforcement Directorate’s (ED) response on Saxena’s application by tomorrow morning. Highlighting that he has moved the application “out of free will and without any coercion”, Saxena appealed to the court in-person that he may be made an “approver”. “The applicant (Saxena) humbly prays…that he may be granted pardon approver under section 306 (tender of pardon to accomplice) of the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973 subject to the condition that he will make full disclosure, to the extent, the facts are withing his knowledge,” the application states.

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