Hours after he was discharged from a private hospital in Delhi since him testing negative for Covid-19, Deepak Kochhar, husband of Chanda Kochhar, the former ICICI Bank MD and CEO, was sent to the custody of Enforcement Directorate (ED) till October 17.
The 59 year old was flown to Mumbai on Tuesday and produced before a special court where the ED sought his five-day custody. Arrested on September 7 in connection with the ICICI-Videocon loans case, Kochhar was taken to Delhi for further investigation. On September 14, he had tested positive for Covid-19 and had been undergoing treatment in a Delhi hospital since.
The ED had submitted to the Mumbai court that since Kochhar was under treatment, the custody period granted to the agency should be suspended.
