January 2025
2025: ED appeals against bail decision
The ED appealed to the Delhi High Court against the PMLA bail decision.
- Attribution
- Accused
Sources · 1
- [1]
Last verified: 14 September 2026
Photo: Sonelle77 · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Wikimedia Commons
Nationality Indian — Business / property / telecommunications / Unitech
Sanjay Chandra
Documented profile covering 10 controversies, including “2025: ED appeals against bail decision” and “2024: granted bail in Unitech PMLA case”.
Profile No. 2690 · Updated on 13 October 2026
10Documented controversies
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0Conviction
§ Legal statuses reflect the documented sources as of the date shown; they replace neither court decisions nor the presumption of innocence. Counts are not a rating. Methodology
I. Documented controversies
Case · 2 documented stages
2025: ED appeals against bail decision
Formally charged
Formally charged
7 June 2024
2024: granted bail in Unitech PMLA case
A Delhi court granted the Chandra brothers bail in the money laundering case.
- Attribution
- Accused
Sources · 1
- [1]
Last verified: 14 September 2026
Case · 4 documented stages
2021: ordered to return to Tihar after release deemed contrary to Supreme Court framework
Formally charged18-22 March 2021
2021: ordered to return to Tihar after release deemed contrary to Supreme Court framework
The Supreme Court ordered the Chandra brothers to surrender at Tihar after finding that a release order had sought to circumvent its supervision.
- State of the evidence
- Documented
- Attribution
- Accused
Sources · 1
- [1]
Last verified: 14 September 2026
2017-2020
2017–2020: bail conditional on deposit of 750 crore
The Supreme Court made his release conditional on a deposit of 750 crore intended to protect purchasers.
- Attribution
- Accused
Sources · 1
- [1]
Last verified: 14 September 2026
July 2020
2020: limited interim release for Covid-related family reasons
The Court granted him one month's temporary release to care for his ill parents.
- State of the evidence
- Documented
- Attribution
- Protagonist is the complainant
Sources · 1
- [1]
Last verified: 14 September 2026
March 2017
2017: arrested in Unitech cases following homebuyers' complaints
Chandra was arrested in cases in which purchasers accused Unitech of siphoning funds from projects that had not been delivered.
- Attribution
- Accused
Sources · 1
- [1]
Last verified: 14 September 2026
August-October 2021
2021: allegations of improper use of Tihar facilities and interference with investigation
ED reports referred to unlawful activities from prison, asset transfers and attempts to influence witnesses; the Court ordered measures against prison officials.
- State of the evidence
- Documented
- Attribution
- Directly implicated
Sources · 1
- [1]
Last verified: 14 September 2026
Case · 3 documented stages
2017: fully acquitted in 2G trial
Acquitted / conviction overturned21 December 2017
2017: fully acquitted in 2G trial
The special court acquitted Chandra and the other defendants, finding that the prosecution had failed to prove its case.
- Course of the proceedings
- Formally charged — Formal charge before the current outcome
Sources · 1
- [1]
Last verified: 14 September 2026
2011
2011: CBI prosecution in 2G case
The CBI accused Chandra of participating in a conspiracy to obtain telecommunications licences for Unitech Wireless.
- Attribution
- Accused
- Course of the proceedings
- Formally charged — Formal charge before the current outcome
Sources · 2
- [1]
- [2]
Last verified: 14 September 2026
23 November 2011
2011: Supreme Court grants bail in 2G case
The Supreme Court considered that the investigation had concluded and that pre-trial detention should not become punishment in advance.
- Course of the proceedings
- Formally charged — Formal charge before the current outcome
Sources · 1
- [1]
Last verified: 14 September 2026
II. Constellation of documented links
No documented link with another published profile for now.
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