ED under Supreme Court’s scrutiny
The Tribune Editorial: The government and the judiciary should also take a serious note of the ED’s claim that the timely completion of trials continues to face systemic and procedural hurdles.
Updated At : 06:14 AM Aug 09, 2025 IST
THE Supreme Court has told the Enforcement Directorate (ED) to work within the confines of the law and not act like a ‘crook’. That’s a new low for a Central probe agency, perhaps even more embarrassing than the court’s 2013 observation about the CBI being “a caged parrot that speaks in its master’s voice”. The stinging criticism comes days after the Finance Ministry informed the Rajya Sabha that the ED took up 5,892 cases under the Prevention of Money Laundering Act since 2015 and secured the conviction of 15 persons during the past decade. The court is worried not only about the low conviction rate in cases investigated by the ED but also the very image of the probe agency.
