New Delhi, June 21 -- The Enforcement Directorate (ED) on Friday withdrew its summons to senior advocate Pratap Venugopal, hours after the Supreme Court Advocates-on-Record Association urged Chief Justice of India Bhushan R Gavai to take suo motu cognisance of the agency's move, calling it a grave infringement on the independence of the legal profession and the sanctity of lawyer-client privilege. Venugopal, summoned on June 19 to appear before the ED on June 24 under Section 50 of the Prevention of Money Laundering Act, received a text message from the agency on Friday informing him that the notice "stands withdrawn with immediate effect." The summons pertained to the ongoing investigation into the allotment of Employee Stock Option Plans by Care Health Insurance to former Religare Enterprises Chairperson Rashmi Saluja. Venugopal was the Advocate-on-Record for a legal opinion rendered by senior counsel Arvind Datar in the matter. P6...