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New Delhi: The Enforcement Directorate (ED) on Tuesday said that it has arrested Gujarat-based journalist Mahesh Langa in a money laundering case.
This move comes days after the Gujarat Police in January this year registered a case against Langa for allegedly extorting Rs 40 lakh from a real estate agent by threatening to malign his image and implicate him in a false case.
In a post on X, ED shraed “ED, Ahmedabad has arrested Mahesh Prabhudan Langa under the provisions of PMLA, 2002 in the case of Mahesh Prabhudan Langa & others. Mahesh Prabhudan Langa was produced before the Hon’ble Special Judge (PMLA), Mirzapura Court, Ahmedabad and the Hon’ble Special Judge (PMLA) has granted 04 days ED custody till February 28, 2025.”
The journalist Langa is currently in jail in four previous cases registered by Ahmedabad, Gandhinagar and Rajkot police.
Gujarat Police had registered a fresh FIR under section 308 of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita (BNS) against Langa that deals with extortion. The case was registered on January 23 by the Satellite police station in Ahmedabad city on a complaint by Janak Thakor, a real estate agent and a social worker.
So far, a total of five FIRs have been registered by Gujarat Police against Langa, who worked with a leading newspaper in Gujarat, after his arrest by the Ahmedabad police’s crime branch in an alleged Goods and Services Tax (GST) scam in October last year.
