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Delhi High Court clarified that it is a legal matter between the petitioner and the Directorate of Enforcement, not a conflict between political parties. It stressed the need for the court to maintain its focus on the legal merits of the case, without being influenced by political dynamics.
It was alleged that a cartel was formed by violating provisions and the spirit of liquor policy, and all the conspirators had played an active role, causing huge losses to the Government exchequer and undue pecuniary benefits to the public servants.
In 2018, the National Company Law Tribunal approved the resolution plan submitted for Amtek Auto by Liberty House, which was settled with 80% haircut for Deccan Value Investors in November 2021
“We cannot keep our eyes shut and be a mere mute spectator of the fraud, which the builders have played on the home buyers and Noida Authority”
The District Collectors of several Districts of Tamil Nadu were summoned by the Directorate of Enforcement for various offences under the IPC and the Prevention of Corruption Act, 1988, including some of them being scheduled offences.
“Judicial comity and judicial discipline demands that higher courts should follow the law. The extraordinary and inherent powers of the court do not confer any arbitrary jurisdiction on the court to act according to its whims and caprice.”
Madras High Court noted that even in the counter, ED have not explained how the provisional attachment can be sustained on merits, in view of the sale in favour of the petitioners
“Non furnishing of grounds of arrest in writing till the date of pronouncement of judgment in Pankaj Bansal case could neither be held to be illegal, nor the action of the officer concerned in not furnishing the same in writing could be faulted with.”
Earlier in a writ petition concerning the issue of continuation of V. Senthil Balaji as a Cabinet Minister of the State consequent to his arrest, the Court left it to Chief Minister MK Stalin to decide about the continuance of Senthil Balaji (who is in judicial custody) as a Minister without Portfolio
Madras High Court remarked that Senthil Balaji’s continuation in the cabinet without portfolio will serve no purpose and do not augur well with the Principles of Constitutional ethos on goodness, good governance and purity in administration.
Supreme Court clarified that the bail has been granted, solely on medical grounds and not on merits
Abhishek Banerjee and his wife Rujira Banerjee were stopped at the airport on 05-06-2023 from travelling abroad because of the Look Out Circular
Madras High Court concurred with the view of Justice D. Bharatha Chakravarthy, that the petition, though maintainable cannot be entertained after remand, and in this case, it can certainly not be entertained.
“There is no fetter on the power of the Central Government in appointing the Director of Enforcement beyond a period of two
by Jai Anant Dehadrai* and Md. Tasnimul Hassan**
Supreme Court: The 3-judge bench of SA Bobde, CJ and AS Bopanna* and V. Ramasubramanian, JJ has held that under the Prevention