CM Raveendran, additional private secretary of Kerala Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan, reached Enforcement Directorate (ED) office for interrogation in a money laundering case in connection with Kerala gold smuggling case.

Kerala High Court to promulgate its order on Raveendran's petition seeking relaxations in the interrogation, today. Raveendran on 15 December approached the Kerala High Court seeking a stay on the summons issued by the ED to him in the PMLA case in connection with the Kerala Gold Smuggling case.

He had approached the court after the ED summoned him to its Kochi office on December 17. The plead, which he had submitted before the High Court stated that "the petitioner has not fully recovered from his illness and that he reasonably apprehends that he would be detained by ED for long hours which he would not be able to endure."

Apart from the stay, he also sought the court to issue an order or a direction to the ED to permit the petitioner to have the presence of a legal practitioner of his choice during his appearance.

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