mumbai shiv sena mla pratap sarnaik failed to appear before the enforcement directorate ed and wrote to the agency on thursday asking for a months time citing health as reasoned had called sarnaik for questioning on wednesday and thursday in a money laundering case while replying to the summons on thursday sarnaik sent a letter to ed stating a doctor had advised him rest for a monthlast year ed had questioned sarnaik who had appeared before the agency after he had procured protection against coercive action from the supreme court the court also granted relief to his son vihang and his brotherinlaw yogesh chandegala ed sources said they wanted to question sarnaik and his son again about collected evidence but they were avoiding the summons on november 24 ed had raided sarnaiks premises along with offices of tops grup and its chairman rahul nanda after registering a money laundering casemeanwhile ed recorded the statement of b g pawar joint metropolitan commissioner mmrda earlier this week ed officials found an audiorecording between sarnaiks alleged associate amit chandole and tops grup senior executive m shashidharan where they allegedly referred to bribing pawar in his statement to ed pawar rubbished the alleged recording he told ed in mmrda everyone knew chandole was sarnaiks close associate ramesh iyer former director of tops grup had told ed sarnaik helped tops grup get an mmrda contract to supply security at foot over bridges in 2014