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Senior leaders of the West Bengal portion of Bharatiya Janata Party person described the beingness of officials of West Bengal authorities and constabulary during Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee’s involution successful the Enforcement Directorate raids connected Indian Political Action Committee offices arsenic an amerciable act.
Ms. Banerjee was seen with West Bengal Chief Secretary Nandini Chakravorty, Principal Secretary to Chief Minister Manoj Pant and Kolkata Police Commissioner Manoj Verma during the Enforcement Directorate raids connected I-PAC office.
Leader of Opposition successful the West Bengal Assembly called the beingness of officials arsenic “brazen amerciable act” and called for the dismissal of these officers.
On Monday (January 12, 2025), the ED approached the Supreme Court, citing obstruction connected behalf of the West Bengal Chief Minister successful its, the cardinal bureau made officials of Kolkata Police and West Bengal government, enactment to the case.
“The Kolkata Police person fallen successful a trap. Manoj Pant and Rajeev Kumar ( DGP of West Bengal police) should battalion their bags,” Mr. Adhikari said.
On Sunday, the BJP person took to societal media and posted a elaborate connection connected the issue. “Around 50 officers were straight complicit successful this daylight robbery of justice... These officers indispensable beryllium IMMEDIATELY SUSPENDED and DISMISSED from Service. They are a disgrace to their azygous and person turned the Police unit into Mamata Banerjee’s idiosyncratic goon squad,” Mr Adhikari said successful a societal media station connected X.
He further added that the officers who included radical similar Chief Secretary Nandini Chakraborty, Principal Secretary Manoj Pant, and Kolkata Police Commissioner Manoj Kumar Verma are helping the CM sneak retired files during a cardinal bureau raid.
Last week, ED officials raided the residence of I-PAC co-founder Prateek Jain and the offices of the organisation, which led to a governmental conflict betwixt the Bharatiya Janata Party and Trinamool Congress, wherever each took retired their marches for and against the CM’s involution during the raid.
BJP IT in-charge Amit Malviya cited paper reports and said that the “presence of West Bengal Chief Secretary Nandini Chakraborty and Principal Secretary Manoj Pant with Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee during the ED raid astatine I-PAC’s Kolkata bureau has sparked crisp criticism, with erstwhile bureaucrats calling it a superior breach of administrative conduct”.
Trinamool Congress person Abhishek Banerjee connected Monday claimed that appeared much funny successful “stealing” than carrying retired a just investigation. Mr. Banerjee said that ED chose to raid the I-PAC bureau successful West Bengal only, and not successful places similar “Hyderabad and Delhi”, if the cardinal probe bureau was conducting a “real investigation” into the organisation.
