Chennai, March 21 -- The Madras high court on Thursday directed the Enforcement Directorate (ED) not to proceed further pursuant to its searches at the state-run liquor retailer TASMAC's headquarters in Chennai recently.

While giving an oral direction to ED in this connection, the HC also directed the central agency to produce copies of FIR and Enforcement Case Information Report (ECIR) along with any other materials which it relied upon against the Tamil Nadu State Marketing Corporation.

After conducting searches at TASMAC earlier this month, ED had recently claimed irregularities to the tune of about Rs 1000 crore. A division bench comprising Justices M S Ramesh and N Senthilkumar posted to March 25, further hearing of the petitions fil...