Money Trail In Gold Smuggling Case: Kerala HC Reserves Order On Maintainability Of Plea Filed By CM's PS CM Raveendran Against ED Summons
Live LawThe Kerala High Court on Wednesday reserved orders on maintainability of the petition filed by Kerala Chief Minister's additional private secretary, CM Raveendran, seeking to restrain the Directorate of Enforcement from detaining him beyond a reasonable time in connection with the probe into the money trail in the Gold Smuggling case. During the course of hearing, the Judge had remarked that he may be "stepping beyond" his jurisdiction in assuming that Raveendran will be detained for an unreasonable amount of time by the agency. Raju quoted from the decision in Virbhadra Singh & Anr v. Enforcement Directorate & Anr., "The powers conferred on the enforcement officers for purposes of complete and effective investigation include the power to summon and examine "any person". "He cannot come to court and say that summons can't be issued or I can't be called for questioning," Raju added.