New Delhi . The matter related to the ED raid on I-PAC in Kolkata reached the Supreme Court. The Enforcement Directorate (ED) has filed a petition in the Supreme Court. A caveat has also been filed in the Supreme Court by the West Bengal government.
In the petition filed in the Supreme Court, the Enforcement Directorate (ED) has mentioned in detail the entire incident that took place in Kolkata. The ED has said that the agency’s right to conduct an impartial investigation has been blocked by the state machinery. The Enforcement Directorate has demanded a CBI investigation in this matter. Earlier, the ED had moved the Calcutta High Court, but the court rejected the plea for urgent hearing. The High Court said that the hearing will be held only on the date fixed by the single-judge bench of Justice Ghosh. The ED argued that if the urgent hearing could not be conducted by Justice Ghosh’s bench before January 14, it could be transferred to some other single-judge bench. This argument was also rejected by the High Court.
In fact, the ED team had conducted a search operation at the office of I-Pack and the residence of co-founder Prateek Jain in Kolkata on Thursday. The controversy escalated when West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee reached Prateek Jain’s house and office amid the ED’s search operation. It is alleged that Mamata Banerjee took many important documents from ED officials and kept them in her car.
Trinamool Congress alleged that I-PAC was working as the party’s voter strategy agency, hence the aim of the ED raid was to seize several documents related to its election strategy for the assembly elections and share them with the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP). However, the central agency has denied TMC’s allegations.
