Chandigarh, July 23 -- The Enforcement Directorate (ED) on Tuesday told Punjab and Haryana high court that issue of prosecution sanction in the FIR involving a former CBI judge, Haryana, could not have been raised by the Gurugram based developer, who is demanding quashing of the FIR.

ED's counsel told the court that the petition seeking quashing of the FIR on the ground that previous approval of the governor under Section 17A of the Prevention of Corruption Act has not been taken before registration of FIR in relation to a judicial officer cannot be raised by the petitioner, who is a private individual and not the concerned public servant.

The court was hearing a petition filed by real estate firm M3M's director Roop Bansal seeking quas...