New Delhi: The Supreme Court today issued notice to Enforcement Directorate seeking its response on what action it has taken against various accused involved in coal block allocation scam.
A three-judge bench headed by Justice R M Lodha passed the order on a plea seeking direction to ED to probe and take action against accused under Prevention of Money Laundering Act(PMLA).
Advocate Prashant Bhushan, appearing for one of the petitioners on whose plea the apex court is monitoring the probe, submitted that the ED and the CBI should act simultaneously like they did in 2G scam and urged the bench to monitor ED probe also.
“According to the information available from reliable sources, the ED has till date registered only 5 to 7 cases under the PMLA in the coal scam case, whereas the CBI has registered over 14 FIRs.
