CHENNAI: How can Enforcement Directorate, being an investigating company itself, method court docket for a course to the Tamil Nadu police, which is one other investigating company, to register instances based mostly on info it offered concerning alleged unlawful sand mining within the state, Madras excessive court docket requested on Friday.The primary bench of Chief Justice Manindra Mohan Shrivastava and Justice G Arul Murugan made the remark on a plea moved by ED searching for instructions to the TN DGP to register FIRs in respect of cognizable offences disclosed below Part 66(2) of PMLA by way of communications dated June 13, 2024, and July 18, 2024.Responding to the question, ED submitted that PMLA allowed it to request different companies to behave upon its findings. Opposing the plea, TN advocate normal P S Raman contended that state police couldn't be handled as a “publish workplace” to merely act on ED's letters. He identified that states like UP, Bihar and Gujarat had 4 instances as many sand mining instances as TN, but ED had not taken any motion there.To this, ED submitted the petition was filed solely in public curiosity and having collected this a lot proof, it was involved that the fabric not be wasted. Responding to the argument, the AG stated, “If public curiosity is the idea, can the Tamil Nadu govt equally method Gujarat excessive court docket searching for motion on unlawful sand mining within the state?”An identical case was filed by ED earlier than Supreme Court docket in opposition to the Delhi govt, wherein SC requested the company below what proper it had approached the court docket with such a prayer. Subsequently, the extra solicitor normal stated he didn't need any findings from the court docket and withdrew the petition, Raman stated.Because the AG submitted that the state was prepared to tell the court docket concerning the future plan of action by way of a counter affidavit, HC adjo-urned the listening to for 3 weeks.
