ED Raid Row: Supreme Court Jolts Mamata, Halts Bengal FIRs On ED

In a big setback to the Mamata Banerjee government in West Bengal and the Kolkata Police, the Supreme Court has paused the FIRs registered against officers of the Enforcement Directorate in connection with their searches against the political consultancy I-PAC.

The bench of Justice Prashant Mishra and Justice Vipul Pancholi has also sought replies from the Ministry of Home Affairs, the Department of Personnel & Training, Mamata Banerjee and the Trinamool Congress government in Bengal on the central agency's petition seeking the suspension of Bengal's DGP Rajeev Kumar and Kolkata Police Commissioner Manoj Kumar Verma, among others. The court has also sought a reply to the petition for a CBI probe in the matter.