Mamata Banerjee

While addressing a public event, Monirul Islam launched a scathing personal attack on the Chief Election Commissioner.

"Please protect the Constitution, democracy, judiciary, history and geography of the country from disaster,” West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee said, without elaborating.

The central agency placed screenshots from a WhatsApp group titled “Legal Minds” before the court. One message, written in Bengali, read: “Today 09.01.2026, Court No. 5, Item No. 10. Come everyone.”

SG Mehta argued that the ED was not a mere organ of the government and the material recovered was not used for personal purposes.

Banerjee’s lawyer Kalyan Banerjee objected to the ED’s plea for adjournment. Mamata has been made a party by the central probe agency in its petition before the high court.

Terming it a rare case warranting constitutional intervention, the ED alleged a pattern of obstruction and intimidation during its I-PAC money laundering probe.

In her fifth letter since the SIR exercise began, Banerjee claimed that the manual voter lists of 2002 were scanned and transliterated using artificial intelligence tools in the absence of a digitised database of the last SIR.

The central agency has alleged interference with its investigation and destruction of evidence during search operations linked to a multi-crore coal pilferage money laundering case.

In his letter, Adhikari described Banerjee’s claims as “baseless” and an attempt to obstruct a process that, according to him, is exposing irregularities in voter lists.

In a three-page letter written on Saturday to the Chief Election Commissioner, Gyanesh Kumar, Banerjee alleged that the SIR of electoral rolls in the state was being conducted with bias and insensitivity.

A caveat, filed before constitutional courts, is meant to ensure that no adverse direction is issued in the absence of the concerned party.

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According to the petition, the agency invoked the court’s writ jurisdiction to “instil public confidence” and to immediately stop what it termed as “over-action” by the state police and Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee.

She said dignity and respect in a democracy are non-negotiable, asserting that citizens and elected representatives cannot be treated arbitrarily by those in power.

The ED conducted searches on Thursday at the Salt Lake office of I-PAC, as well as premises linked to its co-founder and director Pratik Jain, in connection with an alleged coal scam–linked money laundering case

In its petition, the TMC sought directions restraining the “misuse and dissemination” of materials seized during the January 8 searches, carried out under Section 17 of the Prevention of Money Laundering Act, 2002

Did Mamata Banerjee’s intervention during ED raids amount to a political protest or legal obstruction? A look at what the rules state and where criminal liability could arise.

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The ED alleged that one hawala operator, linked to layering of the proceeds of crime from coal smuggling, facilitated transactions involving “tens of crores of rupees” to I-PAC.

The ED raids on I-PAC premises and Mamata Banerjee's dramatic intervention have thrown the spotlight on how a political consultancy has quietly become central to the Trinamool Congress' electoral machine.