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