TMC chairperson Mamata Banerjee on Friday lodged dual complaints against the ED in connection with the agency’s raids at the office of political consultancy firm I-PAC and the residence of its chief Prateek Jain in Kolkata.
Based on the complaints, the Kolkata and Bidhannagar Police filed FIRs and initiated an investigation, an officer said.
The complaints, coupled with the TMC’s petition in the Calcutta High Court against the ED, is believed to have taken the confrontation between the two sides a notch higher, after Kolkata witnessed dramatic scenes of the Chief Minister landing up at the search operation venues and allegedly removing “key documents” and electronic devices from the sites.
CM Banerjee lodged her complaints against unknown ED officials and CRPF personnel at the Shakespeare Sarani Police Station, and against unknown ED sleuths at the Electronic Complex PS under the Bidhannagar Police, in connection with the agency’s raids at Jain’s Loudon Street residence and his Salt Lake office, respectively, on Thursday.
– PTI
