CHANDIGARH, Sept. 4 -- The Punjab and Haryana high court on Wednesday allowed the Enforcement Directorate (ED) to inspect documents submitted by the Income Tax (IT) department before a Ludhiana court, in a disproportionate assets case involving former Punjab chief minister and BJP leader, Capt Amarinder Singh, and his son.

The high court bench of justice Tribhuvan Dahiya dismissed pleas from ex-CM and his son, Raninder Singh, against a Ludhiana court order that had allowed ED to access these documents.

The I-T department had filed criminal complaints against Amarinder and his son in 2016 in a Ludhiana court, saying the two were beneficiaries of foreign assets maintained and controlled through business entities and also of foreign bank a...