Key Points
The hearing in the case is expected on Monday.. The states petitions on behalf of five of the collectors, accessed by ThePrint, call for the summons to be quashed as without jurisdiction, illegal, arbitrary and unconstitutional as they violate both the Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA), 2002 and the Constitution...
The ED issued summons to the 10 collectors from Ariyalur, Karur, Vellore, Thanjavur, Trichy among others the senior most authorities in their districts for sand mining via email last week, on 17 November, as part of an ongoing investigation into alleged money laundering...
The petition also questions the EDs motivations behind exercising the PMLA on money laundering only in specific states while in others such as Gujarat, Maharashtra, Madhya Pradesh, Uttar Pradesh, thousands of cases remain pending...
The Tamil Nadu government has contested the summons, accusing the federal agency of using the act with unguided and unchecked power to interfere in a state in a pick- and-choose approach, in violation of the principles of federalism...
In the second week of September, the ED carried out massive raids in the state earlier this year, across 34 locations, including eight sand mining yards, throughout six districts of Tamil Nadu linked to the alleged illegal sand mining case..
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