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The Enforcement Directorate (ED) and governmental consultancy steadfast I-PAC connected Thursday (January 8, 2026) moved the Calcutta High Court implicit the cardinal agency’s searches astatine the bureau and residence of I-PAC main Pratik Jain.
The ED moved the tribunal alleging interference successful its investigation, portion I-PAC challenged the legality of the searches.
The seaches were portion of a wealth laundering probe into an alleged multi-crore rupee ember pilferage scam, authoritative sources said.
Justice Suvra Ghosh, earlier whom the matters were mentioned, is apt to instrumentality them up for proceeding connected Friday (January 9).
Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee dramatically turned up astatine the residence of Jain successful southbound Kolkata and its bureau successful Salt Lake amid an ongoing ED raid, alleging that the cardinal bureau was attempting to prehend the TMC's interior documents, hard disks and delicate information linked to its predetermination strategy.
Apart from governmental consultancy for the TMC, I-PAC besides looks aft the IT and media compartment of the party.
The ED sought the precocious court's involution into the substance truthful arsenic to guarantee that it is allowed to behaviour the probe without immoderate hindrance.
In a statement, the ED alleged that the CM entered Mr. Jain's residence and took distant cardinal grounds including carnal documents, physics devices.
The cardinal bureau claimed that Banerjee had besides gone to the I-PAC bureau from wherever the CM, her aides and constabulary forcibly removed documents and physics evidence.
