The Enforcement Directorate has been given enormous powers and if not reined in, “no one will be safe”, Senior Advocate Harish Salve told the Supreme Court, Bar and Bench reported.
Salve, along with Senior Advocate Mukul Rohatgi, was arguing on behalf of the owners of the M3M real state group.
Senior Advocate Harish Salve on Tuesday exhorted the Supreme Court to rein in the powers of the Enforcement Directorate with respect to its procedures against accused in money-laundering cases
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The Enforcement Directorate (ED) on Tuesday arrested real estate firm IREO s owner and Managing Director Lalit Goyal in a money laundering case linked to alleged bribery of a now-suspended special judge based in Panchkula, official sources said. The businessman was taken into custody by the federal probe agency under the criminal sections of the Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA) from Gurugram, they said.
Salve and senior advocate Mukul Rohatgi were representing M3M directors, Basant Bansal and Pankaj Bansal who were arrested in a money-laundering probe. | Latest News India