Overview
- The Calcutta High Court will hear the ED and Trinamool Congress petitions with entry limited to designated counsel, with proceedings live-streamed and recorded.
- Acting Chief Justice Sujoy Paul directed regulated access after Justice Suvra Ghosh adjourned an earlier session due to overcrowding and commotion.
- The ED alleges Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee and state police hindered its searches at I-PAC sites and removed documents and devices, naming her as a respondent.
- The TMC seeks court protection against prejudice, misuse, and dissemination of material the party says was taken during the searches.
- The ED has sought an urgent Supreme Court hearing while the West Bengal government filed a caveat, and the BJP’s plea to protest near Nabanna was admitted by a single-judge bench.