Bad news for Jacqueline Fernandez fans as Supreme Court rejects…

“The petition is dismissed with liberty to raise the matter at an appropriate stage,” a bench of justices Dipankar Datta and AG Masih said.

The court, however, allowed her to approach the top court at a later stage and directed the trial court to deal with all her objections at the stage of framing charges, without getting influenced by the observations made by the Delhi high court that dismissed her plea on July 3.

Fernandez was represented by senior advocates Mukul Rohatgi and Siddharth Agarwal, who argued that many persons liked to meet her since she was a filmstar and Sukesh Chandrashekhar sent her gifts that she never asked for. “To say that I helped him launder the ₹200 crore is not made out as I am not even named in the predicate offence of extortion on which the ED has begun a probe.”