The Kerala High Court on Wednesday dismissed a petition looking for a directive to the Customs and the Enforcement Directorate (ED) to research additional the alleged position of high-ranking political functionaries, together with Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan and former Speaker P. Sreeramakrishnan in the diplomatic gold smuggling case.
Dismissing the petition filed by Aji Krishnan, founder secretary of NGO Highrange Rural Development Society (HRDS), Justice Bechu Kurian Thomas noticed that the Customs and the ED have performed or are conducting an investigation into the case. There are not any supplies to imagine that the investigation shouldn’t be being performed correctly. Other than the assumptions that the investigation shouldn’t be being performed correctly, the petitioner has not produced any materials earlier than the court docket to reach at a conclusion that the probe would proceed opposite to the regulation.
The court docket added that there have been no causes to imagine that if the involvement of any individuals is revealed in the course of the investigation, they might not be proceeded towards. ”For, the dictum ‘Be you ever so high, the law is above you’ applies with equal vigour to all, irrespective of standing or place,” it mentioned.
The court docket famous {that a} Division Bench had already dismissed two writ petitions looking for a good and neutral investigation into the allegations of gold smuggling and in addition to set in movement felony regulation proceedings towards the Chief Minister in the case. It was not open for one other member of the general public to agitate the exact same situation merely by a change in the identify of petitioner, it mentioned.
