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New Delhi: Solicitor General Tushar Mehta and senior advocate Kapil Sibal had a heated exchange in Supreme Court Tuesday over the Enforcement Directorates powers to investigate money laundering cases in non-BJP ruled states...
A division bench of justices Suryakant and K.V. Vishwanathan was hearing the EDs petition to transfer an investigation into bribery charges against its officer, Ankit Tiwari, from the Tamil Nadu Vigilance and Anti-Corruption Department to the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI)...
The state police had apprehended Tiwari on 1 December for allegedly accepting a bribe of Rs 20 lakh from a state government employee...
In his opening remarks, Mehta said that ministers of the Tamil Nadu government are under EDs scanner on account of predicate offences, FIRs of which are already registered with the state police.. Predicate or scheduled offences are defined under Section 2(y) of the Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA)...
When Sibal claimed ED had no right to demand an FIR from the state until it prima facie establishes that a money laundering offence has been committed in connection with the case registered by the state police, the bench said: If there is an FIR against the accused, if you have already registered alleging the officer has a role in an illegal mining case or a corruption case, then what is the states propriety to say that I wont allow further investigation by the ED...
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