ED v Mamata Banerjee : Live Updates From Supreme Court Hearing

Hearing ends. Court to continue hearing arguments in April.

Singhvi: this is a remarkable case of a vice which is proclaimed as a virtue with pride.

Singhvi: Let us assume that on this side is a private person. They say that we have filed the 226 it is an extraordinary case. They accept that the 226 is pending as we speak and then they say that we have filled a 32 on identical facts. Your lordships will throw it out

Singhvi: law is not a play thing just because ED or just because the department comes here.

Singhvi: it is a very self serving argument. It is a figment of imagination to suggest that they are remediless. Why should your lordships do reverse engineering and stretch the law for a situation which according to them is very serious?

Singhvi: your lordships should not ignore nine judges this is the most followed judgement.

even assuming that the department was remedy less which it is not your lord ships will not create law on part 3 because somebody tells your lord ships that they are remedy less

Singhvi: these petitions are adopting a process of reverse engineering. The situation is painted as extremely serious and so you lordships should make a new law and do reverse engineering to fit in somewhere in part 3.

Singhvi: in our case the petitioner is neither a person nor a citizen.

Singhvi reads out portions of the judgement

Singhvi: Justice Sinha did a very exhaustive jurisprudential examination of the concept of person, entity, human beings, citizen and how everybody except this class is excluded from part 3

Singhvi: on all these issues the State Trading Corporation judgement judgement is extremely instructive.