The Bombay High Court on Wednesday granted protection from coercive action to Purvesh Sarnaik, son of Shiv Sena MLA Pratap Sarnaik, in an alleged money laundering case being probed by the Enforcement Directorate (ED).

A bench of Justices S S Shinde and Manish Pitale said that such protection would be subject to Purvesh cooperating with the ED's probe. The bench was hearing a petition filed by Pratap Sarnaik, a Maharashtra legislator, his sons Vihang and Purvesh, and his brother-in-law Yogesh Chandegala.