CM Mamata : files objections against ED’s I-PAC searches at two police stations

CM Mamata: Mamata Banerjee, the chief minister of West Bengal, filed a complaint on Friday at two police stations in Kolkata over the Enforcement Directorate’s simultaneous raid and search operations at the India Political Action Committee (I-PAC) office and Pratik Jain’s home.

Sources claim that two complaints have been filed: one at the Electronic Complex Police Station and the other at the Shakespeare Sarani Police Station under the Kolkata Police.

However, no members of the Central Armed Police Force (CAPF) or ED officials have been identified in any allegation. The two police stations have received complaints against unidentified people.

The Shakespeare Sarani Police Station has received a suo motu complaint from Kolkata Police.

In response to Mamata Banerjee’s complaints at the two police stations, Sukanta Majumdar, the Union Minister of State and former West Bengal state president of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), said it was regrettable that the Chief Minister had filed a complaint at two police stations in an attempt to “save” a businessman.Majumdar stated, “I ask the Chief Minister to at least keep her chair dignified.”

Later in the day, three petitions regarding the ED’s I-PAC raid would be heard by the single-judge bench of Justice Suvra Ghosh of the Calcutta High Court.

The ED’s primary appeal accuses the West Bengal Chief Minister of abusing her constitutional authority by allegedly interfering with central agency agents’ official tasks while conducting raids and searches at these two locations.

Pratik Jain and the Trinamool Congress have filed two counter-petitions against this primary ED petition.