THE Bombay High Court on Tuesday said its division bench (comprising two judges), instead of a single-judge bench, would hear the petition filed by Maharashtra’s former Home Minister Anil Deshmukh against the summons issued to him by the Enforcement Directorate in a money laundering case.

 

A single bench of Justice S K Shinde said the objection raised by the HC Registry Department that the issues raised in the plea ought to be heard by a division bench is “correct”. Justice Shinde directed the Registry Department to place Deshmukh’s petition for hearing before the appropriate division bench. Deshmukh filed the petition earlier this month, seeking to quash the five summons issued to him by the Enforcement Directorate (ED).