With all due respect for Mr Datar’s qualifications, track record and eminence, these things should not matter.
A lawyer giving a legal opinion to a client is pretty much at the core of what the profession does, yes?
Arvind Datar is the country’s most respected Tax Lawyer and he, like Nani on whom he wrote that wonderful book, is also a constitutional law jurist! Has the ED completely lost it that it has issued summons to him for an opinion he had given to an entity facing investigation? If senior counsels start getting ED notices for legal opinions can you imagine where we have arrived as a nation? The SC should take suo moto notice of this lunacy!