New Delhi:
What if your government is in power at the Centre and some other political party does the same at the state level, the Supreme Court posed this counter question to the Mamata Banerjee government during a hearing on the Bengal Chief Minister’s alleged interference in the search operations conducted against political consultancy firm I-PAC.
The Enforcement Directorate, or ED, has accused Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee and state officials of interfering with its investigation and searches at the offices of political consultancy firm Indian Political Action Committee, or I-PAC, which works with the Trinamool. The raids happened in early January as part of a money laundering investigation.
The top court questioned the objections raised over maintainability of the plea moved under Article 32 by Enforcement Directorate (ED) against Mamata Banerjee’s alleged interference in the raids against I-PAC.
A bench of Justices PK Mishra and NV Anjaria said that some officers of the ED, which investigates financial crimes, have also petitioned it in their individual capacity.
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