The Enforcement Directorate (ED) has urged a special court in Mumbai to resolve the discharge applications of Rohit Pawar (a member of the Maharashtra Legislative Assembly representing the Nationalist Congress Party) and 11 others implicated in the alleged Maharashtra State Co-operative Bank (MSCB) scam. This request follows the acceptance of a closure report by a court regarding a related case, which cited a lack of evidence against the accused. The ED's money laundering case stems from an August 2019 FIR filed by the Mumbai Police's Economic Offences Wing, which accused MSCB officials of fraudulently selling loans to cooperative sugar factories and spinning mills without adhering to proper procedures. The alleged irregularities resulted in a staggering loss of ₹25,000 crore (approximately $3 billion USD) to the state exchequer between January 2007 and December 2017. Despite the closure report, the ED has filed prosecution complaints against 17 individuals and is seeking a merit-based decision on the discharge applications, emphasizing that a writ petition challenging an earlier rejection of the ED's intervention is still pending in the Bombay High Court.