India, March 9 -- A special PMLA (Prevention of Money Laundering Act) court on Friday allowed the Enforcement Directorate (ED) to question Lalan Singh, the hawala operator arrested in connection with the Torres jewellery fraud in which thousands of investors from the Mumbai Metropolitan Region lost crores of rupees.

Special judge AC Daga allowed ED to question the 58-year-old Mulund resident, who is currently under judicial custody in the Arthur Road Jail, for any two days between March 8 and March 14, 2025. The court directed the jail superintendent to allow ED's assistant director Abhay Kumar, and enforcement officers GBV Satyanarayana, Shubham Pensia and Ankur Tripathi to record Singh's statement under sections 50(2) and 50(3) of the ...