New Delhi, Feb 15 (TIWN) The Supreme Court on Monday sought response from Centre on a PIL by NGO Common Cause challenging the November 13, 2020 order which retrospectively amended the tenure of the present Enforcement Directorate (ED) Director, Sanjay Kumar Mishra.

Advocate Prashant Bhushan, representing the NGO, submitted that according to the scheme of the act, the present Director shall have maximum tenure of 2 years, but instead, he has been given a one-year extension. Bhushan vehemently argued that this is destroying independence of the ED and contended that this has become means for harassment.