Kolkata, Feb 3 (IANS) The Leader of Opposition (LoP) in the West Bengal Assembly, Suvendu Adhikari on Tuesday said that Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee’s claims in her affidavit in the Supreme Court on the Enforcement Directorate’s petition regarding her ‘interference’ during a search operation at the office and residence of Indian Political Action Committee (I-PAC) co-founder Pratik Jain in Kolkata are contradictory to the statements she made on January 8, the day of the raid. “The Chief Min…
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Kolkata, Feb 3 (IANS) The Enforcement Directorate (ED) continued its raids across West Bengal’s West Burdwan district on Tuesday in connection with a coal and sand smuggling case, with dramatic scenes unfolding at the residence of businessman Rajesh Bansal in Jamuria. According to ED sources, officials of the State Bank of India (SBI) arrived at Bansal’s house carrying sacks and were later seen exiting with three of them.Sources said that so far Rs 65 lakh has been recovered from the premise…
Kolkata, Feb 3 (IANS) The Enforcement Directorate (ED) officers conducted raids on Tuesday at multiple locations in West Bengal as part of its investigation into sand and coal smuggling cases.The raids are currently underway in the West Burdwan district.A team of ED sleuths arrived in the district early in the morning and conducted a raid in Nabagram. Sources said that the ED is investigating allegations of illegal extraction and smuggling of coal from Eastern Coalfields Limited.The search is be…
New Delhi, Feb 3 (IANS) The Supreme Court will hear on Tuesday the plea filed by the Enforcement Directorate (ED) alleging interference by the West Bengal government and Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee during the recent search operations at the office of political consultancy firm Indian Political Action Committee (I-PAC) and the residence of its co-founder Pratik Jain in Kolkata.A Bench of Justices Prashant Kumar Mishra and Vipul M. Pancholi will resume hearing the matter on Tuesday, according t…
Kolkata, Feb 2 (IANS) Trinamool Congress General Secretary and the party’s Lok Sabha member, Abhishek Banerjee, will be accompanying West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee during the latter’s scheduled meeting with the Chief Election Commissioner (CEC), Gyanesh Kumar, at the Election Commission of India (ECI)’s headquarters in New Delhi on Monday afternoon.The meeting time has been scheduled for 4 p.m. The Chief Minister has been in New Delhi since Sunday afternoon, preparing the groun…
Kolkata, Jan 29 (IANS) The Calcutta High Court on Thursday again rejected the plea from the Bharatiya Janata Party’s (BJP) West Bengal unit to hold protest demonstrations in front of the state Secretariat ‘Nabanna’ against Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee’s alleged move hindering the Enforcement Directorate (ED)’s raids against the Indian Action Political Action Committee (I-PAC).A division bench of Chief Justice Sujoy Paul and Justice Partha Sarathi Sen declined the party’s plea challenging the s…
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…
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…