The Madras High Court on Wednesday (August 6, 2025) imposed costs of ₹30,000 on Directorate of Enforcement (ED) officials for not having filed counter affidavits to three writ petitions filed by film producer Akash Baskaran and his friend Vikram Ravindran in June this year, challenging the action taken against them in connection with the TASMAC money laundering investigation.
A Division Bench of Justices M.S. Ramesh and V. Lakshminarayanan imposed the costs at the rate of ₹10,000 for each of the three writ petitions after finding that senior counsel Vijay Narayan was ready to argue the matter on behalf of the writ petitioners but the ED had not filed its counter affidavits. The judges granted two more weeks for the investigating agency to file the affidavits.
