Kolkata, Jan 28 (IANS) The Mamata Banerjee government will move a motion in the West Bengal Assembly to condemn the role of Central probe agencies like the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) and the Enforcement Directorate (ED) in the state during the Budget Session starting next week.Sources in the Trinamool Congress’s legislative party in the state Assembly said that during the session, the Treasury Bench will also move another motion condemning the manner in which the ongoing Special Int…
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Kolkata, Jan 21 (IANS) Enforcement Directorate (ED) Director Rahul Navin will visit West Bengal again. According to ED sources, he will arrive in Kolkata on Thursday for a three-day visit. However, the reason for the ED Director’s visit has not been clarified by the agency. Many believe that this visit is highly significant in the backdrop of the recent ED raids at the house of Indian Political Action Committee (I-PAC) director Pratik Jain and at the Kolkata office of I-PAC, a political consul…
Kolkata, Jan 20 (IANS) The Enforcement Directorate (ED) on Tuesday conducted search operations across Jharkhand, Manipur and Kolkata in connection with a massive fake Input Tax Credit (ITC) scam worth around Rs 658 crore, said sources in the central investigation agency. The raids were conducted at the premises of individuals and firms suspected of being linked to the fraud. ED’s Itanagar unit is spearheading the operation in coordination with state police forces, sources said.According to inv…
New Delhi, Jan 15 (IANS) Solicitor General (SG) Tushar Mehta, referring to the recent obstruction faced by the Enforcement Directorate (ED) during its search operations in West Bengal, on Thursday told the Supreme Court that it was “a case where mobocracy replaces democracy”. Appearing for the ED, SG Mehta, the second-highest law officer, submitted before a Bench of Justices Prashant Kumar Mishra and Vipul M. Pancholi that the federal anti-money laundering agency was prevented from discharging i…
Kolkata, Jan 15 (IANS) The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI), accompanied by Central Armed Police Forces (CAPF) personnel, was conducting simultaneous raids and search operations at five locations in and around Kolkata on Thursday in connection with a probe into a multi-crore bank loan forgery.The places where the simultaneous raid and search operations were being conducted include the posh locality of Alipore in South Kolkata and New Town in the northern outskirts of Kolkata.Sources aware o…
Kolkata, Jan 14 (IANS) The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Wednesday welcomed the Calcutta High Court order disposing of the petition filed by the Trinamool Congress accusing the Enforcement Directorate (ED) of collecting confidential party documents during the simultaneous raids and searches at the Indian Political Action Committee’s (I-PAC) office and at the residence of I-PAC co-founder Pratik Jain on January 8.The single-judge bench of Justice Suvra Ghosh, while disposing of the petition, ac…
New Delhi, Jan 14 (IANS) The Supreme Court will hear on Thursday a petition filed by the Enforcement Directorate (ED) alleging that its simultaneous raid and search operations last week at the office of the Indian Political Action Committee (I-PAC) and the residence of its co-founder, Pratik Jain, were obstructed by the West Bengal government and Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee.As per the causelist published on the website of the apex court, a bench of Justices Prashant Kumar Sharma and Vipul M. …
Kolkata, Jan 14 (IANS) The Calcutta High Court’s single-judge bench of Justice Suvra Ghosh on Wednesday accepted the Enforcement Directorate’s (ED) submission that the central agency’s officials could not seize anything during the January 8 raids and search operations at the Indian Political Action Committee’s (I-PAC) office in Salt Lake and at I-PAC co-founder Pratik Jain’s residence in central Kolkata.Justice Ghosh’s bench, hence, disposed of the petition filed by the Trinamool Congress, whi…
Kolkata, Jan 14 (IANS) Following the expiration of the defamation notice deadline issued by Suvendu Adhikari, the Leader of Opposition in the West Bengal Assembly, to Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee regarding her claims of the LoP’s ‘involvement’ in the coal smuggling case, which concluded on Wednesday, Adhikari will now proceed with legal action.Last week, the counsel of Adhikari sent a notice of defamation to the Chief Minister, asking the latter to provide all purported evidence in the matter …
Kolkata, Jan 14 (IANS) Parallel hearings on three petitions and counter-petitions concerning the controversies surrounding the Enforcement Directorate’s raid and search operation last week at the Indian Political Action Committee office and its co-founder Pratik Jain’s residence are scheduled to be heard by Calcutta High Court’s single-judge bench of Justice Suvra Ghosh later on Wednesday.The raids were conducted at the I-PAC office in Salt Lake on the northern outskirts of Kolkata, and Ja…