NEW DELHI: Enforcement Directorate Monday filed a writ petition in SC looking for a CBI probe into 17 offences beneath BNS allegedly dedicated by Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee, state DGP and Kolkata police commissioner on Jan 8 by obstructing ED raid on I-PAC’s Pratik Jain, tampering and stealing proof and intimidating its officers. It requested SC to “direct instant seizure, sealing, forensic preservation, and restoration to lawful custody of the ED all digital gadgets, digital data, storage media, and paperwork illegally and forcibly taken away from the search premises.” ED has accused the CM and high police brass of committing 17 offences beneath BNS, together with theft, dacoity, theft, assault or prison power to discourage public servant from discharging his responsibility, inflicting disappearance and destruction of proof and prison intimidation. Terming the incident stunning, unprecedented and extraordinary, ED mentioned, “Protectors of legislation – the CM, DGP and Kolkata police commissioner are celebration to critical cognisable offences requiring registration of an FIR.” It mentioned the raid on Jain’s residential premises was performed as a part of investigations right into a multi-state cash laundering case involving almost Rs 3,000 crore derived from unlawful coal mining. It alleged that Jain had obtained Rs 20 crore of the illicit cash. “To the shock and shock of ED officers and everybody involved, the CM together with chief secretary, DGP, Kolkata police commissioner and deputy police commissioner together with cops and officers barged into premises beneath the search. They not solely began intimidating ED officers but additionally snatched the recordsdata and digital proof containing incriminating materials from the officers.” “Officers of the petitioners have been threatened and weren’t permitted to conduct any additional search on the premises. The searches have been performed at two locations – one at residence of Pratik Jain and second workplace premise of 1 firm known as Indian Pac Consulting Pvt Ltd,” it mentioned. It is going to be futile to strategy native police to register an FIR for these unlawful actions by the state’s constitutional and police authorities because it entails the CM who additionally holds the house portfolio beneath whom the police perform, ED mentioned. It mentioned Calcutta HC couldn’t conduct listening to in its writ petition looking for registration of FIR and CBI probe into the unlawful acts of the CM and others as her supporters created a ruckus and compelled the choose to adjourn listening to. It sought a course from SC to West Bengal Police to not lodge any FIR in opposition to ED officers with out court docket’s prior permission. “The truth that the supporters of CM are concerned in creating ruckus is evidenced from the WhatsApp message within the WhatsApp group by celebration members to come back and collect in large numbers within the court docket. On account of the ways by the CM and her followers, treatment beneath Article 226 of the Structure (in HC) has turn out to be illusory within the information of the current case,” ED mentioned. ED mentioned that the state police has maliciously registered a number of FIRs in opposition to its officers for conducting the raid and sought safety from the court docket to hold out unhindered its investigations into the PMLA case referring to unlawful coal mining and I-PAC.