The Superior Court of Madras dismissed on Wednesday requests presented by the government of Tamil Nadu and Tasmac that challenge the search and seizure operation of the compliance address at the Tasmac headquarters held from March 6 to 8. | Photo credit: Bijoy Ghosh
The Madras Superior Court dismissed on Wednesday the supplications presented by the Marketing Corporation of the State of Tamil Nadu (Tasmac) and the Tamil Nadu government that challenges the search and seizure operation carried out by the Control Directorate (ED) in the Corporators. 8.
The Emergency Department is free to process with all additional actions under the money laundering prevention law, 2002 (PMLA), says an order issued by a bank of the SM Subramaniam Justice Division and Judge K Rajasar. Judges Smubramaniam and K Rajasekar. Citizens will be the best judge to decide if there is any political reason behind the search operation, according to the order.
Tasmac (the petitioner) argued that the power of the defendant (ed) related to the investigation of the crime of money laundering without the consent of the State in question is the violation of the basic structure of federalism and the separation of powers. Said investigation/investigation by the defendant can only be carried out at the request of state agencies/state government or under the instructions of the constitutional courts, Tasmac said.
However, the court observed that a raid or a search by a investigation agency must be planned and discreetly executed to ensure that criminals are taken by surprise. How can a research agency perform a fair and safe search if all employees can leave the facilities? “It is unfortunate that in the present case a mere search was carried out and the petitioners with complete capricious arguments have approached this Seijs court for declaring the search as illegal,” he said.
If this Court accepts that said search carried out by an investigative agency is harassment, it can lead to a flood of litigation where each citizen or this accountant subject to the rule of law begins the joy of detailed Alleg. Possible, what matters most is the ‘will of the people’, the court observed.
Therefore, the Court indicated that the Execution Directorate is free to process with all additional actions under PMLA. Consistently, all miscellaneous writing requests are closed and the writing request is dismissed, he said.
Posted on April 23, 2025