{"id":10515,"date":"2026-04-10T02:05:10","date_gmt":"2026-04-10T02:05:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/d.sheep-mine.ts.net\/?p=10515"},"modified":"2026-04-10T02:05:10","modified_gmt":"2026-04-10T02:05:10","slug":"130156685-cms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/d.sheep-mine.ts.net\/?p=10515","title":{"rendered":"Setback for arms consultant, Delhi HC upholds &#8216;fugitive offender&#8217; tag | India News &#8211; The Times of India"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div data-articlebody=\"1\"><video-embed value=\"false\"\/><\/p>\n<div class=\"ihgno clearfix  \">\n<div class=\"e9jwa\">\n<div class=\"vdo_embedd\">\n<div class=\"GfdvZ\">\n<section class=\"_bIDB  clearfix id-r-component leadmedia undefined undefined  E9tg9 \" style=\"top:0px\">\n<div class=\"_bIDB\" data-ua-type=\"1\" onclick=\"stpPgtnAndPrvntDefault(event)\">\n<div class=\"ypVvZ\">\n<div class=\"WGttI\"><img src=\"https:\/\/static.toiimg.com\/thumb\/msid-130156699,imgsize-1126235,width-400,height-225,resizemode-4\/-.jpg\" alt=\"Setback for arms consultant, Delhi HC upholds 'fugitive offender' tag\" decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\"\/><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>NEW DELHI: Delhi HC on Thursday upheld a trial court&#8217;s order declaring UK-based arms consultant Sanjay Bhandari a &#8220;fugitive economic offender&#8221; in connection with a money laundering case.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"2\"\/> Justice Neena Bansal Krishna found no merit in the appeal filed on behalf of the fugitive and dismissed it.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"4\"\/> In July 2025, a trial court had declared Bhandari a &#8220;fugitive economic offender&#8221; on a plea by ED, enabling the agency to confiscate all of Bhandari&#8217;s assets. However, his chances of coming to India were virtually nullified after a UK court ruled against his extradition.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"6\"\/> Bhandari&#8217;s legal team claimed he was &#8220;legally living there (in the UK), and declaring him a &#8216;fugitive&#8217; in that scenario is legally wrong&#8221;.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"8\"\/> The trial court said the extradition attempt may have failed, but it would &#8220;not make the accused an angel or immune from prosecution for the violation of Indian laws&#8221;.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"10\"\/><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/india\/setback-for-arms-consultant-delhi-hc-upholds-fugitive-offender-tag\/articleshow\/130156685.cms\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI: Delhi HC on Thursday upheld a trial court&#8217;s order declaring UK-based arms consultant&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10516,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[724,1393,25986,8508,723,719,720,721,2147,25985,722],"class_list":["post-10515","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-breaking-news","tag-delhi-high-court","tag-extradition","tag-fugitive-economic-offender","tag-google-news","tag-india","tag-india-news","tag-india-news-today","tag-money-laundering-case","tag-sanjay-bhandari","tag-today-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/d.sheep-mine.ts.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10515","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/d.sheep-mine.ts.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/d.sheep-mine.ts.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/d.sheep-mine.ts.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/d.sheep-mine.ts.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10515"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/d.sheep-mine.ts.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10515\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/d.sheep-mine.ts.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/10516"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/d.sheep-mine.ts.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10515"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/d.sheep-mine.ts.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10515"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/d.sheep-mine.ts.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10515"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}