The Directorate of Enforcement on Thursday informed the Madras High Court that so far seven Enforcement Case Investigation Reports (ECIR) have been registered, covering 70 FIRs registered by the Madurai police from 2012 onwards in connection with illegal granite mining.
Under progress
The investigation in all these cases under the Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA) is under progress.
A. Sadiq Mohamed Nainar, Assistant Director, Directorate of Enforcement, made the submission before the First Bench of Chief Justice S.K. Kaul and Justice R. Mahadevan on a PIL moved by ‘Traffic’ K.R. Ramaswamy alleging that the State had incurred heavy loss because of irregularities in the allotment of mining lease.
Recording the submission the Bench said: “We have perused the status report filed by the Directorate of Enforcement, it is suffice to say that the matter has not reached the conclusion as it is stated that in the main cases investigation is in final stages.”
As the counsel for State government requested 10 more days’ time to file a response, the Bench posted the PIL to October 4 for further hearing.
