According to the FIR, lodged by Shammi Ahluwalia, Director of P & R Overseas Pvt Limited (Tomato Magic), the accused allegedly conspired to present a 'Letter of Credit' (LoC) from a Foreign Bank as a genuine document.
SC sought response of Chanda Kochhar and her husband Deepak Kochhar on a plea of the CBI challenging the interim bail granted to them in a loan fraud case.
The Central Bureau of Investigation, which arrested the couple on December 23, last year in the Videocon-ICICI loan scam case, had opposed their release.
The 71-year-old Dhoot was arrested from Mumbai, nearly three days after former CEO and MD of the ICICI Bank Chanda Kochhar and her husband Deepak Kochhar were taken into custody by the CBI, they said.
It is some seven years after the first of the complaints surfaced that the CBI bit the bullet to nab the Kochhar couple in connection with the alleged massive Rs 3,250 crore loan fraud involving the defunct Videocon Group.
The ED had arrested Deepak Kochhar in September 2020 after it filed a criminal case for money laundering based on an FIR registered by the CBI against the Kochhars, Dhoot and others.
