Chief Minister walking into an ongoing ED raid is not a Centre-State dispute, Supreme Court says

The Supreme Court connected Wednesday (April 22, 2026) said West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee’s behaviour of “walking into the midst” of an ongoing Directorate of Enforcement (ED) raid astatine I-PAC premises successful Kolkata successful January cannot construe to a Centre-State dispute.

A Bench of Justices Prashant Kumar Mishra and N.V. Anjaria was responding to an statement made by the West Bengal authorities side, represented by elder advocator Menaka Guruswamy, that the writ petition filed by the ED successful the apex tribunal for a Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) probe against Ms. Banerjee, elder constabulary and State officials who accompanied her.