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NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court connected Thursday issued announcement to West Bengal main curate Mamata Banerjee and different authorities officials connected the allegations levelled by Enforcement Directorate implicit the raids connected I-PAC -- a governmental consultancy steadfast linked to Trinamool Congress The apical tribunal sought the effect from main curate wrong 2 weeks.The seat of Justices Prashant Kumar Mishra and Vipul Pancholi besides restrained West Bengal Police from conducting probe connected FIR registered against ED and its officials. “Issue announcement to the respondents. Counter affidavit beryllium filed wrong 2 weeks. Post the substance connected February 3, 2026. In the meantime it is directed that, the respondents (West Bengal government) shall sphere the CCTV cameras astatine I-PAC and different cameras containing the footage of adjacent areas," the seat said.This comes pursuing the cardinal agency's raid connected I-PAC and its main Pratik Jain astatine Kolkata's Salt Lake connected January 8.The ED alleged that main curate Mamata Banerjee interfered during the raids, removed integer devices and cardinal documents with constabulary support, and forced officials to terminate the searches without making immoderate seizures.Who said what?ED's allegations against Mamata
- Appearing earlier the seat of Justices Prashant Kumar Mishra and Vipul Pancholi, Solicitor General Tushar Mehta accused Mamata of "barging successful and interfered", "whenever statutory authorities exercised statutory power."
- "It reflects a precise shocking pattern," Mehta said.
- "The states volition consciousness they tin barge in, perpetrate theft, and past beryllium connected a dharna. Let an illustration beryllium set; officers who were explicitly contiguous determination should beryllium suspended," Mehta added.
- Mehta said that determination was grounds indicating "incriminating material" was contiguous astatine the premises searched during the I-PAC raid successful Kolkata.
- Further, helium accused Mamata of entering the premises wherever the raid was ongoing and taking mode "key" grounds related to the probe.
- He said section constabulary authorities had been duly informed successful beforehand and that elder officials, including the DGP, the CM, the commissioner of police, the section lawman commissioner of constabulary (DCP), and a ample constabulary force, subsequently reached the spot.
- "There was grounds starring to the decision that incriminating worldly was lying successful a premise...local constabulary was intimated...DGP, CM and Commissioner of Police and DCP of area, ample constabulary force, goes there...took worldly unauthorizedly. It's an discourtesy of THEFT. She takes it away. Mobile of ED authoritative besides taken away. She adjacent went earlier media...this volition promote officers to not discharge their duty. Forces volition beryllium demoralized. Let illustration beryllium set. Officers who were contiguous during workout beryllium placed nether suspension and placed nether departmental enquiry. Please instrumentality cognizance of what's happening," Mehta said.
Mamata's antagonistic allegations
- Appearing successful behalf of Trinamool Congress president Mamata Banerjee, elder advocator Kapil Sibal submitted that the precocious tribunal indispensable archetypal perceive the substance and present its judgment, aft which the parties could attack the appellate forum.
- He argued that parallel proceedings had present been initiated, adjacent though the High Court had jurisdiction nether Article 226, and that this was the due hierarchy to beryllium followed.
- Senior Advocate Kapil Sibal said that IPAC had a ample magnitude of enactment data, and erstwhile the ED went there, it knew that delicate enactment accusation would beryllium present.
- Sibal besides referred to the video signaling of the raid and said, "It is simply a blatant prevarication that each integer devices were taken. Allegation that CM Mamata Banerjee took each devices is simply a lie, substantiated by ED's ain panchnama (search record)."
- "The past connection successful the ember scam was recorded successful February 2024; what was ED doing since then? Why truthful keen successful the midst of elections?" helium posed.
- Meanwhile, elder advocator Abhishek Singhvi, appearing for the State and the DGP, raised a beardown objection to the maintainability of the petition.
- He submitted that if announcement was to beryllium issued, it should beryllium made wide that it would beryllium taxable to their objection connected maintainability.
- Singhvi argued that a nonstop attack to the Supreme Court by the ED was permissible lone successful exceptional situations wherever nary effectual remedy was available. He besides objected to forum shopping, pointing retired that broadly akin reliefs had already been sought earlier the precocious court.
- Senior Advocate Abhishek Singhvi argued that either the allegations made successful the plea were incorrect oregon the panchnama itself was false, arsenic some could not basal together
- He said that claims of obstruction and inability to behaviour the hunt were untrue successful airy of the panchnama. Referring to the Solicitor General’s connection that the authorities were informed, Singhvi contended that the State received lone a casual email astatine astir 11:30 am, adjacent though the hunt had begun astatine 6:45 am. He urged the ED to spot wide instructions connected grounds and alleged that the workout was simply an effort to screen tracks and make a insubstantial trail.
