A Delhi court on extended by 13 days the judicial custody of businessman Abhishek Verma and his Romanian wife, arrested for allegedly receiving money from a Swiss arms firm to stall blacklisting proceedings against it by the Indian government.
Special CBI Judge Sanjeev Jain remanded Verma and his newly-wed Romanian wife Anca Maria Neacsu, who were arrested on June 8, in judicial custody till August one after the CBI submitted that investigation in the case is still going on.
Earlier, the court had handed over to the CBI some documents, purportedly sent to it by an NGO and linked to a case against Verma and his spouse, asking the probe agency to examine them and take action on them, if necessary.
In the present case, Verma has been accused of taking $530,000 from Rheinmetall Air Defence AG for using his influence to stall the blacklisting proceedings initiated by the government