By Admin 
The Supreme Court has criticized West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee for her interference in the ED raid. While hearing the agency’s petition, the court said, ‘The makers of the Constitution would not have even imagined such a situation that a Chief Minister could ever come to interfere in the investigation. This is like endangering democracy.
‘Don’t make center versus state’
The bench of Justice Prashant Kumar Mishra and Justice NV Anjaria made strict remarks during the hearing and said, ‘There should not be an attempt to make this a case of state versus centre. All this started because of a special person who coincidentally is the Chief Minister of the state.
‘Even the judges are not safe there’
The Supreme Court took the state government’s lawyer to task for raising questions about ED officials coming directly to the Supreme Court. The court said, ‘We know what the situation is. The judges working as SIR were also taken hostage and you are saying that the ED should have gone to the local magistrate?
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What is the matter?
On January 8, ED officials had reached the house of political strategist Prateek Jain and the office of his organization IPAC in Kolkata to search. During this raid related to coal scam, Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee reached Prateek Jain’s house with heavy police force. Mamta picked up the documents from there and took them with herself.
ED has filed a petition
ED has filed a petition in the Supreme Court saying that disrupting legal action by bringing along armed people is a serious cognizable crime. Since senior police officers themselves are involved in this incident, the CBI should be asked to register a case in the matter. Apart from Mamata Banerjee, the then state DGP Rajeev Kumar, Kolkata Police Commissioner Manoj Kumar Verma and South Kolkata DCP Priyabrata Roy have also been made parties in the ED petition.
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How far did the hearing reach?
In January itself, the court had issued notice in the case. So far, senior lawyers like Kapil Sibal, Abhishek Manu Singhvi, Shyam Diwan, Maneka Guruswamy and Siddharth Luthra have cross-examined the state government and the rest of the defendants. The main argument that all of them have given is that the ED’s petition is not worthy of consideration. He says that under Article 32, the Constitution has given the right to file petition directly in the Supreme Court to the citizens, not to the investigating agency. On Thursday, April 23, Solicitor General Tushar Mehta will present the case on behalf of ED. After him, Additional Solicitor General SV Raju will also argue on behalf of the ED officers who were involved in the raid.