West Bengal Urges Urgent Listing of Plea in Supreme Court

The West Bengal Government has sought urgent listing of its plea in the Supreme Court challenging a Calcutta High Court order to transfer the probe into an attack on Enforcement Directorate (ED) officials in Sandeshkhali to the CBI. Senior advocate Abhishek Singhvi, representing the state government, mentioned the plea before a Bench comprising Justices Sanjiv Khanna and Dipankar Datta.

The Central probe agency, ED, had also sought immediate compliance with the High Court order to transfer the investigation to it. Both parties moved separate appeals in the High Court against a single Bench order directing the formation of a joint special investigation team of the CBI and the State police to probe the mob attack. While the ED wanted sole custody of the probe, the State advocated for the investigation to be handled by its police.