The Supreme Court on Tuesday indicated allowing Rajeev Saxena an approver in an AgustaWestland chopper scam related money laundering case to travel abroad for medical treatment if his relatives were ready to furnish two sureties of Rs five crore each for his return.

As a Vacation Bench headed by Justice Sanjiv Khanna asked senior counsel Meenakshi Arora representing Saxena to inform it by Wednesday if his sister and sister-in-law were willing to furnish sureties of Rs five crore each as guarantee that he would return to face trial, the Enforcement Directorate vehemently opposed it.

“Your apprehensions may be right or wrong, but are you powerless to get him back? We understand your apprehensions. His passport is for limited period,” the Bench commented and asked Solicitor General Tushar Mehta to suggest other conditions which could be imposed on Saxena for his travel abroad.

He insisted that treatment for Saxena’s ailments was available in India and that he was not only disclosing his role in this money laundering case, but also revealing the culpability of others.

The United Arab Emirates security agencies had picked him up from his Dubai residence on January 30 and extradited him to India.In its June 10 order, the high court had said he had already been granted bail on medical grounds, before being pardoned and made an approver.