Former DMK functionary Jaffer Sadiq, accused of drug smuggling, moves Madras High Court with plea to quash ED’s arrest order

The ED in Chennai had booked Sadiq in a money laundering case pursuant to his arrest by the Narcotics Control Bureau in New Delhi in a drug smuggling case, but Sadiq claims he was not produced before a magistrate within 24 hours of his arrest, and so, the arrest was illegal