Kolkata, Jan 8 || The Enforcement Directorate (ED) on Thursday approached a single-judge bench of the Calcutta High Court, accusing West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee of misusing her constitutional position by allegedly creating hindrances to the official duties of central agency officials during raid and search operations conducted earlier in the day.
The ED alleged that while its teams were carrying out searches at the office of the India Political Action Committee (I-PAC) in the northern outskirts of Kolkata and at the residence of I-PAC co-founder Pratik Jain at Loudon Street, the Chief Minister arrived at both locations accompanied by senior officials of the West Bengal Police and Kolkata Police and allegedly removed files and electronic materials from the premises.
At the same time, the ED issued a statement refuting the Chief Minister’s claim that the agency had stolen documents belonging to the Trinamool Congress in the name of conducting search operations at the two premises.
It is learnt that the single-judge bench of Justice Suvra Ghosh admitted the ED’s petition, and the matter is scheduled to come up for hearing on Friday.