Chennai, April 18 -- The Madras high court on Thursday concluded the hearing on the batch of petitions filed by the Tamil Nadu government and its liquor distribution arm, TASMAC, against the Enforcement Directorate's (ED) raid, and search and seizure operations at the TASMAC headquarters in Chennai last month.

A bench of justices SM Subramaniam and K Rajasekar reserved orders on the petitions after hearing exhaustive arguments from all sides for over three days. The bench, however, directed the matter to be listed again on Monday "despite orders being reserved" to enable senior counsel Vikas Singh, appearing for the government, to give a short response to ED's arguments.

Additional solicitor general SV Raju, who was representing ED, tol...