The Delhi High Court on Wednesday issued a notice to Enforcement Directorate (ED) in a plea moved by Karnataka Congress unit president DK Shivakumar challenging the probe initiated by ED against him in a PMLA case.
A division bench of Justice Mukta Gupta and Justice Anish Dayal sought a response from ED while listing the matter for the next hearing on December 15, Live Law reported.
Shivakumar has challenged the proceedings initiated by ED in 2020, arguing that the probe agency is “re-investigating the same offence” that it had already probed in a previous case registered by it in 2018.
The entire investigation along with continued probe, including the issuance of summons in the 2020 case, be quashed, he prayed.
The Congress leader has also challenged the constitutional validity of Section 13 of the PMLA by virtue of which the schedule of the Act was amended and Section 13 of the Prevention of Corruption Act was included under the anti-money laundering law, the legal website reported.
“Thus, there is complete overlapping of investigation by two different agencies i.e. the agency investigating the predicate offence under Section 13 o f the Prevention of Corruption Act and the respondent agency investigating the same u/s 3 ofthe PML Act,” read his plea.
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