By Admin 
The Supreme Court has reprimanded the Enforcement Directorate in the Rs 1000 crore scam case related to Tamil Nadu State Marketing Corporation (TASMAC). Chief Justice Bhushan Ramakrishna Gavai (CJI BR Gavai) also said that he does not want to say anything on the ED investigation, otherwise it will also become a topic of discussion on social media.
On Tuesday (October 14, 2025), the bench of CJI BR Gavai and Justice Vinod Chandran was hearing the case. ED had raided TASMAC’s Chennai headquarters in March in the Rs 1000 crore scam case. This raid was conducted regarding increasing the price of liquor bottles, rigging in tender and bribery. During this time, the agency officials had seized computers and other items of TASMAC. The court said that if the state police could not look into this case, it was necessary for the ED to come.
Court reprimanded ED
According to the report of Bar and Bench, the court asked the ED, ‘Are you not interfering in the rights of the police? Can’t the state police investigate this scam, is ED’s intervention necessary? Who looks after law and order in the state? What effect will this have on the federal structure?
CJI BR Gavai said, ‘I have seen the ED investigation in many cases in the last six years, but I do not want to say anything on it, otherwise it will again become a topic of discussion on social media.’ Additional Solicitor General SV Raju, who appeared to present the ED’s side on this, said that very little is said in our favor on social media and this is our complaint.
TASMAC expressed objection to ED raid
During the hearing, senior advocate Kapil Sibal, appearing for TASMAC, raised questions on the action of ED and said that how can a government institution be raided, when the order for the action was given by TASMAC itself. Kapil Sibal said that raids were conducted at the managing directors’ places, once FIR was filed, ESIR was also filed, this case can be closed in some time.
Kapil Sibal said that we have to decide what we have to do and what not and what the ED is doing. ED confiscated computers, this is very surprising. On Kapil Sibal’s argument, ASG SV Raju said that fraud was taking place on a large scale at TASMAC. He told that 47 FIRs have been filed.
Kapil Sibal said that most of the FIRs have been closed. He said that if ED had any such information then this information could have been shared with the local police also. On the arguments of ASG Raju, CJI Gavai said that whether the action of ED is not an encroachment on the rights of the state to investigate any case.