Panaji, May 4 -- The High Court of Bombay at Goa on Monday granted relief to former Goa chief minister Digambar Kamat and former public works department (PWD) minister Churchill Alemao, who served in his cabinet in the money laundering case filed in relation to the Louis Berger bribery case.

The high court, while deciding separate criminal revision applications filed by Kamat and Alemao, set aside the order of the Special Court under the Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA), 2002 to take cognisance of the Enforcement Case Information Report (ECIR) that the Enforcement Directorate (ED) had filed against the duo, on grounds that the ED had failed to secure prior sanction from the government before initiating prosecution.

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