Reserves Order On Relief To Mamata Faction Over ED’s Freezing Of 3 Accounts
The three HDFC accounts in question together have Rs 440 crore. A case was filed before Justice Bhattacharyya, who on July 9 directed that the Mamata faction can withdraw for day-to-day expenses under the supervision of the special officer, retired judge Justice Subrata Talukdar.
An Alipore court, in an ex parte interim order on Friday, restrained the Mamata faction from disturbing the rival camp, which it prima facie held was “the only lawful executive body authorised to administer the affairs of the All India Trinamool Congress till Aug 6”. Additional solicitor general SV Raju, appearing for ED, asked if AITC represented by Dola Sen could move the HC when the Alipore court had restrained them from “interfering with the party’s administration”. The lower court also restrained the Mamata faction from using the accounts. They were first frozen on the order of the police. The only objective of ED is to delay the matter… Never before has a recognised political party’s nine bank accounts been frozen in this manner. They froze this while the opposing faction of TMC is yet to be recognised as a symbol-holding party by the ECI. What is happening is first the state police and then ED collaterally are getting them recognised de facto as the only TMC. Income-Tax, CBI and ED are only too over-eager to recognise them,” Singhvi argued.
Cakcutta High Court Kolkata: Can the civil court take the power of the Election Commission by recognising the rebel faction of Trinamool Congress , the Calcutta High Court asked on Monday while reserving its order on whether any interim relief could be provided to the Mamata Banerjee faction on ED’s freezing of three private bank accounts. ED informed this to the HC on Monday after the Mamata faction moved the bench of Justice Krishna Rao seeking quashing of the central agency’s ECIR and seeking the same interim relief provided by Justice Saugata Bhattacharyya in another case against state police for freezing the same accounts. “Today, there is supposedly a triple-engine sarkar.