Rescue teams had earlier extricated 89 persons from under the collapsed hoarding, of whom 14 were declared dead while the other 75 were injured, as per officials.
ASG SV Raju, representing the ED, sought clarification on whether the declared void arrest might preclude them from exercising their rightful powers to arrest.
The team included members of the vigilance department and other officials who had gone for an inspection. When the cage was coming up, it collapsed due to breakage of a rope.
The probe agency made the submission while opposing the bail plea of former deputy CM Manish Sisodia in the excise policy-related money laundering case.
