Black money case – SC pulls up Enforcement Directorate

The Supreme Court today pulled up the ED for filing a charge sheet against Pune-based stud farm owner Hasan Ali Khan in a case of alleged money laundering without informing a high-level committee formed by the government to monitor probe in sensitive cases.
The apex court was also anguished that during the last hearing on May 4 when the Enforcement Directorate placed its status report on the investigation in the blackmoney case involving Khan and others it did not make a mention of the charge sheet to be filed on May 6 before a special court in Mumbai.

“You (ED) filed the charge sheet without placing it before the committee you have constituted and we are surprised,” a bench comprising justices B Sudershan Reddy and S S Nijjar said.