New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Friday stayed the proceedings before the adjudicating authority on the Enforcement Directorate's provisional order attaching Maran family owned Sun TV's assets worth Rs 742.6 crore in an alleged money laundering case rooted in controversial Aircel-Maxis deal.

A bench of Chief Justice H.L. Dattu and Justice Amitava Roy excluded the operation of 180 days limit within which adjudicating authority has to decide on the ED's order attaching the assets, failing which the attachment order goes.