DELHI HC Asks MOIN Qureshi to Enhance Security Deposit For Foreign Trip

THE Delhi High Court Monday directed controversial multi billionaire meat exporter Moin Akhtar Qureshi on a CBI plea to enhance the security amount for travelling abroad. Justice Chander Shekhar sought the response of Qureshi on the agency’s plea seeking enhancing of security from Rs two crore to Rs six crore which Qureshi, accused in a cheating and corruption case, has been asked to furnish to travel to the UAE and Pakistan. Qureshi was earlier allowed by a trial court to travel to the UAE from February 15-23 for attending the Gulf Food Festival and Pakistan from March 6-20 to attend his niece’s wedding. The court had also directed him to furnish an additional security of Rs two crore in the form of bank guarantee and warned that in case of violation of any of the conditions imposed, the amount would be forfeited. The court had in 2017 granted him bail in a case in which the ED had alleged that Qureshi was involved in hawala transactions through Delhi-based hawala operators Parvez Ali of Turkman Gate and M/s South Delhi Money Changer (DAMINI) in Greater Kailash-1.The case related to the Kanpur based meat exporter is stated to the cause of three CBI Directors including Alok Verma.