In ED’s case against West Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee and others over the IPAC office search, Additional Solicitor General SV Raju today submitted before the Supreme Court that the agency has been “terrorized”.
The remark was a response to a submission by Senior Advocate Siddharth Luthra that the agency must justify its “weaponization”. “It [ED] has not been weaponized, it has been terrorized”, said the ASG.
The Court posted the case to March 18, noting Solicitor General Tushar Mehta’s submission that ED is likely to file its rejoinder today.
A bench of Justices Prashant Kumar Mishra and KV Viswanathan was dealing with the petition filed by the Enforcement Directorate under Article 32,…