JUDGEMENT

V. Ramasubramanian, J. Permission to file special leave petition(s) is granted.

2. Delay condoned. 3. Leave granted. 4. Aggrieved by two independent orders, one passed by a learned Judge of the Madras High Court on 31.10.2022 disposing of a batch of criminal petitions and the other passed by the Division Bench of the Madras High Court on 01.09.2022, putting on hold an investigation by the Enforcement Directorate¹, various persons such as (i) the de-facto complainants; (ii) third parties; (iii) the accused; and (iv) the ED have 1 For short, “ED” come up with these batch of appeals. Other than the batch of appeals arising out of the said two orders of the High Court, there are also two appeals, one challenging the refusal of the High Court to extend the time for completion of investigation and another challenging an order passed by the Division Bench of the High Court granting limited relief to the Enforcement Directorate to access certain documents available on record in the Special Court trying the predicate offences. Apart from these appeals, there are also two contempt petitions and an application seeking the constitution of a Special Investigation Team