Breaking: Calcutta High Court to Hear ED–I-PAC Raid Case Today Amid Political Tension in Bengal

The Supreme Court is scheduled on January 15 to hear a a petition filed by the Directorate of Enforcement (ED) for a Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) probe into the alleged obstruction of its raids at the offices of political consultancy firm I-PAC and its co-founder Pratik Jain in Kolkata by West BengalWest BengalWest Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee, State officials and other individuals.

The petition is listed before a Bench of Justices Prashant Kumar Mishra and Vipul M. Pancholi.

The ED has arraigned the State of West Bengal, Ms. Banerjee, the State’s Director General of Police, the Kolkata Police Commissioner and the Deputy Commissioner of Police South Kolkata along with the CBI.

The State has already filed a caveat in the case to forestall the passing of any order by the apex court without hearing it.