CM barging in during ED raids not happy situation: Supreme Court blasts Bengal

The Supreme Court on Wednesday came down heavily on the Bengal government in the I-PAC case, saying Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee interrupting ED raids in the state was not a "happy situation". A bench of justices Prashant Kumar Mishra and NV Anjaria said central probe agencies could not be left without any remedy in such instances.

"The case here is that some Chief Minister allegedly barges into a government office and interferes with the Central government agency's work. What is the remedy then? What happens if some other CM does it again? We have to respond to an organic situation where some remedy has to be there," the court said, indicating that it might frame SOPs for such situations.

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