On September 04, the Enforcement Directorate (ED) told the Calcutta High Court (HC) that it would not use any files (among 16 files) downloaded from the computer of Trinamool Congress leader Abhishek Banerjee’s firm as evidence in any probe against him. The same was submitted after an application filed last week by Banerjee before a single-judge Justice Tirthankar Ghosh. The filed application alleged that the files were downloaded by the ED during a raid last month in the company, Leaps & Bounds (linked to Banerjee), without the company’s consent.
During the court proceedings on September 04, the ED told the bench, through Additional Solicitor General SV Raju, that it would not use those files. The order reads, “Mr. SV Raju, learned ASG submits that the Enforcement Directorate would on a covering letter certify that these 16 downloaded files which have been downloaded and print out of which are being handed over to this court by the CFSL Authorities would not be used in any evidence in any criminal proceedings by the Enforcement Directorate or any other Agency.” The HC further ordered to present the printout of the files in question before the Court by 4:30 PM on 06 September 2023.