New Delhi: The Supreme Court will consider the CID report on the alleged defrauding of over Rs. 500 crore worth properties of Mysuru-based taxidermist Edwin Joubert Van Ingen on Aug. 1. A Three-Judge Bench, presided by Justice Ranjan Gogoi, agreed to consider the matter, though senior advocate Mahesh Jethmalani, representing Michael Floyd Eshwer, who claimed himself to be an adopted son of Van Ingen and thus the legal heir of the properties, urged the Apex Court to let the High Court of Karnataka decide the issue.
A CID inquiry was ordered by the High Court after Eshwer sought direction for quashing an FIR registered against him by Van Ingen with Nazarbad Police Station in Mysuru on Mar. 2, 2013. Yesterday, the Bench, also comprising Justices L. Nageswara Rao and Navin Sinha, took on record the submission made by advocate Joseph Aristotle, who said the CID report had been filed in a sealed envelope.
