Chennai: The Madras High Court has stayed the operation of the summons issued to five district collectors by the Enforcement Directorate in connection with its probe under the Prevention of Money Laundering Act into alleged illegal sand mining in the state. A division bench comprising Justices S S Sundar and Sundar Mohan granted the interim stay on the petition filed by state secretary K Nanthakumar. The bench, however, said the ED can go ahead with its probe into the alleged sand mining in the state.
