Mumbai

A Mumbai Special Court extended Shiv Sena MP Sanjay Raut's custody to the Enforcement Directorate (ED) by four days till August 8 on Thursday.

Raut was arrested on Monday in an alleged money-laundering case. He was initially remanded to ED custody till August 4.

The ED sought an extended custody for Raut till August 10 as it had secured certain documents and wanted to probe related matters, besides investigating other accused in the case.

ED had raided Raut's residence in Bhandup on Sunday, interrogated him at his home for nearly 10 hours before detaining him at the agency's office for further interrogation.

He was finally arrested after midnight on Monday.

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Raut is in custody of the ED in the Patra Chawl Land scam case.

ED has also issued summons Sanjay Raut's wife, Varsha Raut in connection with the case.