The Bombay high court on Tuesday asked ED to consider by Wednesday if it could postpone the date for summoning advocate Anand Grover as a trustee of Lawyers Collective under the Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA). For ED, additional solicitor general Anil Singh told a bench of Justices S S Shinde and M S Karnik that he would take official instructions.
The court raised the query on two petiti-ons by Lawyers Collective, its trustees, senior advocate Indira Jaising and Grover to quash a case filed last year by ED and November 6 summons to Grover. The petition also challenged provisions of PMLA as being violative of fundamental rights to equality, life and protection against self-incrimination. tnn