The High Court of Karnataka has stayed a First Information Report (FIR) registered against two officers of the Enforcement Directorate (ED) by the Bengaluru city police on a complaint by Y.B. Ashwathnarayana, Director of Kolar-Chickballapur District Cooperative Milk Producers’ Union Ltd. (KOMUL), who had alleged that he was threatened and assaulted by the ED officers recently during his interrogation in a money laundering case.
Justice K. Natarajan passed the interim order on a petition filed by the ED, and its Deputy Director Manoj Mittal and Assistant Director Ajay Kumar Vaidya, who are working in ED’s Bengaluru zone office.
The ED and its officers have stated in their petition that the complaint with false, baseless, and malicious allegations was lodged against them as an attempt to interfere with and obstruct the ongoing investigation against the complainant and others in two money laundering cases.
