High Drama: Mamata Alleges Strategy Theft Amid ED Raids, Agency Cries Obstruction

• ED conducted simultaneous raids at 10 premises in West Bengal and Delhi, targeting I-PAC's Salt Lake office and chief Pratik Jain, linked to a coal smuggling money laundering probe.
• West Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee personally intervened at raid sites, leading to a standoff with central agency officials.
• ED alleges CM and state police forcibly removed physical and electronic evidence, including hard disks, from two premises, disrupting the legal process.
• Banerjee slammed the raids as "political vendetta," accusing the Centre of using ED to sabotage TMC's election preparations and target her "IT office" for strategy data.
• Opposition Leader Suvendu Adhikari condemned CM's intervention as unconstitutional obstruction and questioned why I-PAC held "voter lists" and sensitive party data.

Why It Matters: ED raids on I-PAC spark political firestorm; Mamata alleges vendetta, ED claims obstruction of probe.