Enforcement Directorate v Kerala Police : Live Updates From Kerala High Court Hearing

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31 March 2021 11:34 AM IST

  • Enforcement Directorate v Kerala Police : Live Updates From Kerala High Court Hearing

    Kerala High Court starts hearing the petition filed by Dy Director of Enforcement Directorate challenging the FIR registered by Kerala Police alleging that ED forced gold smuggling accused Swapna Suresh to give statements against CM.Follow this page for live...

    Kerala High Court starts hearing the petition filed by Dy Director of Enforcement Directorate challenging the FIR registered by Kerala Police alleging that ED forced gold smuggling accused Swapna Suresh to give statements against CM.

    Follow this page for live updates.


    Live Updates

    • 31 March 2021 12:46 PM IST


      Solicitor General : The concept of cooperative federalism is that state and central agencies act in tandem against perpetrators of crime, and not nullify each other.


    • 31 March 2021 12:45 PM IST


      Solicitor General : This is barred by law. One investigating agency cannot nullify the investigation by another agency.


    • 31 March 2021 12:44 PM IST


      Solicitor General : If this sort of FIR is allowed, a central agency will not be do fair and fearless investigation in a State. This is the wider question.


    • 31 March 2021 12:43 PM IST


      Solicitor General : The correct legal opinion should have been approach the Special Court which has taken cognizance of the matter.


    • 31 March 2021 12:42 PM IST


      Solicitor General : Your lordships have several contemporaneous records, judicial proceedings, which are now sought to be overturned, on a farcical preliminary enquiry, based on statements of "invisible lady officers".


    • 31 March 2021 12:41 PM IST


      Solicitor General : The Hon'ble Court has recorded that the torture is not from me but from others. This is challenged by the Director General of Prisons here


    • 31 March 2021 12:38 PM IST


      Solicitor General : Please see the path which Kerala Police has taken. Not only they will destroy my evidence(ED), but also Customs case and NIA case.


      ASG Natarajan submits that Kerala Police has called Customs officers too.


    • 31 March 2021 12:32 PM IST


      Solicitor General : Even before the Magistrate under Section 164, she has not made such a complaint. Fortunately, the Customs has recorded her statement.


    • 31 March 2021 12:32 PM IST


      Solicitor General : Even if your lordship has a lurking suspicion, I will show that even such a suspicion need not be there. Because the Customs have recorded her statement before the Magistrate under Section 164, where she can raise complaints of torture, harassment etc


    • 31 March 2021 12:30 PM IST


      Justice VG Arun : I am convinced that neither this lady nor the other accused have raised any complaint of harassment or compulsion at any point whether before the special judge or this court.


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