The Bombay High Court has rejected the plea by filed by former Maharashtra Home Minister Anil Deshmukh, seeking quashing of summons issued to him by the Enforcement Directorate (ED), asking him to appear before it in connection with a case of alleged money laundering and corruption.

The high court said that Deshmukh had failed to make a case for quashing of such summons. It further said that the former minister's plea did not merit order to the ED and the CBI, restraining them from taking any coercive action against him.