Supreme Court notice to Enforcement Directorate on Dhayanidhi Alagiri's plea challenging HC Order

 

The Apex Court has issued notice to the Enforcement Directorate (ED) on Dhayanidhi Alagiri's plea challenging a Madras HC Judgement refusing to quash summons issued against him in a money laundering case.

A bench of Justices Dinesh Maheshwari & Aniruddha Bose issued notice to ED on Dhayanidhi Alagiri's plea.

Dhayanidhi Alagiri, who is former Union Minister MK Alagiri's son. has challenged The Madurai Bench of Madras High Court order dated Dec 2 2021. The Madurai Bench of Madras High Court has refused to quash summons issued to Dhayanidhi Alagiri, in a money laundering case. 

The Madras HC had said that the summons issued to the petitioner Alagiri cannot be treated as premature or illegal, since the petitioner is liable to face the trial both in his individual capacity as well as a person-in-charge & responsible for the conduct of the business of the Company, which has alleged to have contravened the provisions of the PMLA. Madars HC had held Alagiri's petition devoid of merits & liable to be dismissed & directed the trial court to proceed with the complaint.

Dhayanidhi Alagiri has moved Madras High Court against a trial court order which has issued summons against him under Section 45 read with Sections 70 & 8(5) of the Prevention of Money-Laundering Act, 2002. 

 Earlier, the ED had provisionally attached properties of M/S Olympus Granite Private Limited & its stakeholder Alagiri Dayanidhi. It attached the properties under the Prevention of Money Laundering Act 2002 (PMLA) after conducting investigations on the basis of an FIR & charge sheet filed by Tamil Nadu Police against the said company for "criminally conspiring & indulging in illegal granite mining activities leading to losses to the government & wrongful gain to themselves.

The charge sheet mentioned various offences under IPC, Explosive Substances Act, 1908 amongst others committed by the accused in the illegal granite mining & trade carried out by the Company which made the act a Scheduled offence.

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