<h1>Appeal dismissed; interim stay upheld on government notification creating CoI into alleged Enforcement Directorate link to gold smuggling</h1> The High Court affirmed a 2021 single-judge interim order staying the state government's notification appointing a Commission of Inquiry to probe alleged attempts by the Enforcement Directorate to implicate the state chief minister in a diplomatic-channel gold-smuggling matter, dismissing the state's appeal. The single judge had found the CoI would run parallel to and interfere with ongoing PMLA criminal proceedings, potentially prejudicing the accused, and noted a CoI is a fact-finding, non-adjudicatory body. The court left the question of the state's legislative competence to appoint the CoI for the single judge's final hearing.