Supreme Court Halts Kolkata Police Action Against ED Officials Amid TMC-BJP Row

• Supreme Court stayed all criminal proceedings and investigations by Kolkata Police against ED officials.
• The court warned that obstruction of a central agency by state machinery is a "very serious issue" leading to "lawlessness."
• TMC alleges ED's actions are politically motivated "election interference" to steal internal strategy before polls.
• BJP hails the SC intervention as an "indictment" of Mamata Banerjee's administration, calling it an "end of mobocracy."
• The legal battle stems from ED raids on I-PAC and Pratik Jain's residence in a coal smuggling and money laundering probe.

Why It Matters: Supreme Court intervened in the ED-West Bengal government standoff, halting police action against ED officials.