SC PULLS UP ED
Bengaluru, May 23 -- The Supreme Court on Thursday stayed the Enforcement Directorate's (ED) investigation into alleged financial irregularities at the Tamil Nadu State Marketing Corporation (TASMAC), the Tamil Nadu government's liquor distribution body.
A bench comprising Chief Justice of India BR Gavai and Justice Augustine George Masih expressed a serious concern over what it described as ED's overreach and questioned the legality of the agency's actions. The bench commented that ED was "crossing all limits," not just in its probe against TASMAC but also in several of its other recent investigations.
The bench pulled up ED for initiating coercive search and seizure operations at TASMAC's headquarters in Chennai between March 6 and 8, 202...
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