Panchkula, May 15 -- The enforcement directorate (ED) has moved the Punjab and Haryana high court challenging a Panchkula court order discharging suspended former CBI judge Sudhir Parmar and four others in a corruption case. The petition is likely to be taken up for hearing by the HC next week.

Last month, a Panchkula court discharged Sudhir Parmar and four others, including real estate representatives Roop Bansal of M3M, Lalit Goyal of IREO, Anil Bhalla of the Vatika Group and Ajay Parmar, nephew of the suspended judicial officer.

All the grounds of challenge are not immediately clear, but officials privy to the development said the petition mainly hinges on "procedural lacunas" in the discharge proceedings, including that same were co...