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The Supreme Court has criticized the Enforcement Directorate to eliminate its limit during the raid on the liquor shops of Tamil Nadu. The court directed the ED to stop the action in corruption charges.
New Delhi:
Supreme Court Reported on Thursday Enforcement Directorate “March and last week – March and last week – the state -operated liquor shops in Tamil Nadu, while” crossing all borders “and violating the concept of federal regime. A bizarre court directed the federal agency to stand up for now.
ED raids were more than allegations of corruption in the transport of liquor, bar license grants, and bottle -making firms and distillery with funding allegations generated by funding in collusion.
A bench led by Chief Justice Bra Gavai told the ED, “You can register cases against individuals … but corporations? Your ED is passing all boundaries! Notice issued, return after holiday.”
“Meanwhile, be given for further action …” said the Chief Justice.
The court’s directive has been welcomed by the ruling DMK; East-Rajya Sabha MP RS Bharti told the news agency PTI that the order was ‘a blow for the BJP’s efforts to defeat the state government’.
The Supreme Court was contacted by the DMK-Run State Government and a state-driven marketing corporation in the state provided a monopoly on wholesale and retail-lax trade in the state. He demanded a challenge to an order on 23 April by the Madras High Court Green-Lighting Aid Action in the case.
However, Ed’s Pore was told by senior advocate Kapil Sibal that the court told several mobile phones seized and cloned during the raid on March 14 and 16.
Back in March, the agency claimed that it found “many irregularities” in the operation of Tasmac, IE, Tamil Nadu State Marketing Corporation Limited.
Ed too Said that this “unaccounted” cash cost is Rs 1,000 crore,
In particular, it said that it found data related to corporate posting, and transport and bar licenses, along with indent orders ‘some distillery’ found “growing” data in favor of ‘some distillery’.
There was also “evidence”, Ed said about the pricing of fraud, that is, the overload of Rs 10 to 30 per bottle sold by TASMAC outlets levied with the “participation” of TasMac authorities.
The raids were repeated last week.
Read | Investigation agency raids in Tamil Nadu on alleged liquor scam
Ten complexes were discovered under the Money Laundering Act, or the prevention of PMLA, and the ED claimed that the ‘manipulated data’ was indicated during the tender award.
After this, Tamil Nadu Excise Minister S. Muthusmi started a reversal, alleging harassment of state government officials. He accused the agency of a ‘political vendetta’ and said that there were ‘reverse political objectives’ in the discoveries of Tasmac’s offices in Chennai and other places.
He said that the ED had found that no evidence has been found to certify the alleged irregularities, and said that Chief Minister MK Stalin’s government supports all state officials all the time.
Read | Tamil Nadu supports the state officials amid raids in the liquor scam case
The ‘political vendetta’ reference was claimed by the opposition that the BJP used federal agencies to target rival political leaders and parties, especially before a major election.
The alleged Tasmac LIQUR scam has been prepared to next year’s assembly poll, as the ruling DMK and the main protest, AIADMK (and its on-then-fir, BJP).
In an uproar over the allegations, the former state unit chief of the party, BJP KK Annamalai launched a fierce attack on Tamil Nadu Minister V. St.hil Balaji, in which he was called a “Kingpin”.
Read | “Kingpin of Scams”: BJP Jabs Tamil Minister on liquor scam claims
“I have my sources. I believe (corruption) is more than Rs 1,000 crore. Senthil Balaji is involved in every scam. He is a kingpin. The Supreme Court has questioned (him) …” He announced, referring to the court’s comments about the minister in a separate money laundering case.
Mr. Balaji denied all the allegations against him, accusing the ED of claiming without evidence.
“As far as Tasmac is concerned, everything is transparent. As far as the purchase is concerned … This purchase will be done by calculating the average of the last three months. From the average of the last three years and the purchase of the previous month, the TASMAC will order the purchase order. So, we have not shown any discount when we give the purchase order,” he said.
With input from agencies
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