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The Kerala High Court has directed the State authorities to record an affidavit connected the steps taken pursuing an onslaught connected the officers of the Directorate of Enforcement (ED) aft they raided the residence of Leader of the Opposition Pinarayi Vijayan and his girl successful Thiruvananthapuram connected May 27, 2026.
A Division Bench of Chief Justice Soumen Sen and Justice Syam Kumar V.M. issued the directive pursuing a nationalist involvement ligitgation (PIL) filed by an advocate, seeking a probe by the Central Bureau of Investigation into the attack. He submitted that the probe into the incidental was progressing astatine a snail’s gait and that lone 10 persons were arrested truthful far, though 300 radical were named successful the FIR. The attack, the archetypal successful Kerala against ED officers, sends a incorrect connection to society, the petitioner said.
During the people of the hearing, the High Court questioned the request for a CBI probe, adding that it was premature to presume that the constabulary volition not analyse the incident. The Supreme Court has already mentioned instances wherever a CBI probe is needed, it said and directed the authorities pleader to record a connection connected the steps taken aft the FIR was registered.
The substance has been posted for proceeding aft 2 weeks.
