NEW DELHI, July 14: The Delhi High Court today said it will hear in August a plea by former Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Mehbooba Mufti, who has been summoned by the ED, challenging the Constitutional validity of certain provisions of the Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA).
A bench of Chief Justice D N Patel and Justice Jyoti Singh listed the matter for August 13 after Solicitor General Tushar Mehta requested that the plea be heard on another day as he was busy with a part heard matter.
Senior advocate Nitya Ramakrishnan, representing Mufti, submitted that the Enforcement Directorate (ED) has file a compilation of judgements relied upon by them but the agency is yet to file a short note of submission on the facts of a money laundering case, as per the court’s earlier direction.
She sought that the court ask the ED to file the submissions.
To this, the bench said the Solicitor General was present in the hearing and he was well aware of the court order and he will do the needful, to which Mehta nodded and stated it will be filed.
During the hearing, the court asked Mufti’s counsel as to what happened on March 22, when she was summoned by the ED to appear before it.
Her counsel said Mufti had appeared before the ED on that day since there was no interim protection granted to her by the court.
Mufti, in her plea filed in March, has also challenged issuance of summons to her by the ED in a money laundering case. She has sought to stay the summons, however, the court had refused to grant the relief at this stage.(PTI)
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