CM barging in during ED raids not happy situation: Supreme Court blasts Bengal
India Today
The Supreme Court's stinging remarks came while it was hearing the ED's petition alleging interference by Mamata Banerjee and her government during its January 8 raids on the office of political consultancy firm I-PAC.
The Supreme Court on Wednesday came down heavily on the Bengal government in the I-PAC case, saying Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee interrupting ED raids in the state was not a "happy situation". A bench of justices Prashant Kumar Mishra and NV Anjaria said central probe agencies could not be left without any remedy in such instances.
"The case here is that some Chief Minister allegedly barges into a government office and interferes with the Central government agency's work. What is the remedy then? What happens if some other CM does it again? We have to respond to an organic situation where some remedy has to be there," the court said, indicating that it might frame SOPs for such situations.
The Supreme Court was hearing the ED's petition alleging interference by Mamata and the government during its January 8 raids on the office of political consultancy firm I-PAC in Kolkata, as well as the residence of its chief, Prateek Jain. The raids were in connection with a money laundering probe linked to the alleged coal scam.
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