Salve seeks Supreme Court help to curb ED's 'drastic powers' in PMLA cases
Supreme Court's intervention in curbing the «drastic powers» of the Enforcement Directorate (ED) in money laundering probes, as he appeared for arrested M3M group directors Basant Bansal and Pankaj Bansal. «See how the arrest was done. They were cooperating.
Arrest was in violation of my (Bansals') rights… these powers need to be reined in… they have been inside for 14 days,» Salve told a bench led by Justice AS Bopanna on Tuesday. «These are drastic powers given to the ED. If Lordships do not rein them in, no one is safe in this country.» Salve, along with senior counsel Mukul Rohatgi, argued that there was not even a whisper of any violation of anticipatory bail conditions by the directors of the realty group to prompt such an action.Illegal detention Justice MM Sundresh, who was also part of the bench, said, «You are right.
It is a cat-and-mouse game. They (ED) are using the laws.» The apex court was hearing a batch of pleas, including appeals against a Delhi High Court June 9 order that refused to interfere with the arrest of the Bansals in a money laundering matter related to a bribery case against Panchkula-based former special judge Sudhir Parmar and others. The Bansal brothers had moved the Supreme Court contending that such custody amounts to illegal detention and was an effort to avoid the high court's orders granting them protection from coercive action in another money laundering case.
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