The Supreme Court on May 12 told the Enforcement Directorate (ED) that they can go to Kolkata and conduct the investigation in a money-laundering probe, linked to an alleged coal scam in West Bengal, in which the agency had issued summons to Trinamool Congress (TMC) MP Abhishek Banerjee and his wife Rujira Banerjee.
As the ED referred to how the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) officials were ‘gheraoed’ (surrounded) in Kolkata earlier and said that Mr. Banerjee is politically “influential”, the apex court observed it may say the Kolkata Police shall extend all cooperation and the State would be bound by that, the moment the agency would make a requisition 72 hours in advance.
A bench headed by Justice U.U. Lalit was hearing an appeal of the TMC leader and his wife against a Delhi High Court order dismissing their petition seeking quashing of summons issued to them in the money-laundering probe linked to an alleged coal scam in West Bengal.
