A Division Bench of the Kerala High Court on December 7 (Thursday) set aside the interim order of a single judge allowing the Enforcement Directorate (ED) to issue fresh summons to former Finance Minister T.M. Thomas Isaac and the Kerala Infrastructure Investment Fund Board (KIIFB) as part of its investigation into the case relating to the floating of masala bonds by the KIIFB.
The Bench comprising Justice A. Muhamed Mustaq and Justice Shoba Annamma Eapen passed the order while allowing appeals by Dr. Isaac and KIIFB chief executive officer K.M. Abraham challenging the order of Justice Devan Ramachandran allowing the ED to issue fresh summons to them.
In its interim order, Justice Ramachandran had clarified that the pendency of the writ petitions challenging the ED summons would not stand in the way of the ED issuing fresh summons to any person when the writ petitions challenging the summons issued earlier by the ED came up for hearing.
