Two years after the Enforcement Directorate (ED) was directed to submit a final report on the probe into allegations of money laundering against former Samajwadi Party leader Amar Singh within “two months”, the Allahabad High Court on Thursday asked the agency to file an affidavit apprising the court of the progress in the investigations.
A division Bench, comprising Chief Justice DY Chandrachud and Justice Yashwant Verma, asked ED to file its affidavit within four weeks. ED had been directed by a three-judge bench on August 1, 2013, to complete its probe within “two months”.
The special three-judge bench had been constituted to decide “as to whether Enforcement Directorate is required to file the Final Form (charge-sheet or final form of investigations) before the designated court or not.