Chennai, March 26 -- A division bench of the Madras high court on Tuesday recused from hearing petitions filed by the Tamil Nadu government and the Tamil Nadu State Marketing Corporation (TASMAC) against raids conducted by the Enforcement Directorate (ED) at TASMAC's headquarters earlier this month.

"We are recusing ourselves," the bench of justices MS Ramesh and N Senthilkumar was quoted as saying by LiveLaw. "We're not taking it up. We have some reasons. We wanted it to be posted tomorrow, but we had already signed the order for posting. But, we found that we cannot take this matter."

The bench directed the court registry to list the case before an alternate bench. The case is likely to be listed before the division bench of justices ...