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The Madras High Court on Wednesday (October 7, 2026) ordered notices to Tamil Nadu government and Directorate of Vigilance and Anti Corruption (DVAC) on a writ petition filed by the partner of a private construction company challenging the Directorate of Enforcement’s (ED) 2024 communication regarding an alleged ₹4,730-crore sand mining scam during the erstwhile DMK regime.
First Division Bench of Chief Justice Sushrut Arvind Dharmadhikari and Justice G. Arul Murugan, however, refused to grant an interim stay of all further proceedings pursuant to the ED’s 2024 communication to the then Director General of Police/Head of Police Force or prevent the DVAC, which had now begun a detailed inquiry on the basis of the communication, from taking coercive action against the petitioner.
A. Rajkumar, partner of R.S. Constructions based at Nanganallur in Chennai, had filed the petition urging the court to quash the ED’s communication sent to the DGP/HoPF on June 13, 2024 and consequently forbear the DVAC from registering either a First Information Report (FIR) or taking any coercive action against the petitioner on the basis of the two-year-old communication.
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