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The Kerala High Court has stayed the arrest of the senior bureaucrat M. Sivasankaran by Customs within the diploamatic channel gold smuggling case till October 23.
The court docket had earlier restrained the Enforcement Directorate from arresting the official till the date. The court docket will think about the 2 circumstances on the date, ordered Justice Ashok Menon.
The official had earlier moved the anticipatory bail on the day the High Court.
During the argument, the counsel for the official submitted that he had offered himself earlier than all investigating companies for hours collectively for interrogation and was absolutely cooperating with the companies. He additionally submitted that he had been interrogated for over 90 hours by varied companies and travelled over 600 hours from his residence at Thiruvananthapuram and again for showing earlier than varied companies.
The official additional submitted that he was being made a pawn in a political recreation for another functions. He additionally submitted that he was prepared to be current earlier than any company at any time.
Regarding his hospitalisation in Thiruvananthapuram, the official submitted that there have been makes an attempt even to forcefully discharge him from the Medical College Hospital, Thiruvananthapuram, the place he was admitted.
Opposing the bail plea, the counsel for the Customs sought time for submitting a counter-statement within the case. The official was adopting a belligerent perspective in the direction of interrogation and was evading solutions to many questions. He additionally overtly contradicted the statements made by the chief Minister the opposite day, he submitted.
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