The Supreme Court on Tuesday stayed a Delhi High Court decision allowing the Enforcement Directorate (ED) to question Trinamool Congress MP Abhishek Banerjee in Delhi, but permitted the probe agency to quiz him in Kolkata after serving 24 hours’ prior notice in a money-laundering case linked to a West Bengal coal scam.
“Pending consideration, interim stay of the effect and operation of the judgment presently under challenge. It shall be open to the ED to require the attendance of the petitioners in office by giving at least 24 hours’ notice,” the court observed.
Pronouncing the interim order, a three-judge Bench led by Justice U.U. Lalit warned the West Bengal government that any kind of “hooliganism or infraction” against the Enforcement Directorate (ED) team would not be tolerated.
