We dont watch news, YouTube interviews: CJI B R Gavai
A bench of CJI Gavai and Justice K Vinod Chandran was hearing a suo motu case over the ED summoning senior lawyers Arvind Datar and Pratap Venugopal for rendering legal opinions to their respective clients.
Solicitor General Tushar Mehta, representing the Centre, shared concerns and said the issue had been taken up at the highest level and the probe agency asked to not issue notices to the lawyers for rendering legal advice.
Mehta, however, pointed out attempts to malign institutions by creating false narratives.
'As far as general observations are concerned, sometimes misconstrued, depending upon individual cases. I am saying this, not the ED, there is a concerted effort to create a narrative against an institution. My lords may find in a few cases where there is overstepping…," the solicitor general said.
'We are finding this (overstepping by ED) in many cases, it is not like we are not finding," the CJI said.
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