SC rejects TMC neta Abhishek’s petition

The Supreme Court on Monday refused to entertain Diamond Harbour MP and TMC national general secretary Abhishek Banerjee’s plea challenging a Calcutta HC order, which had rejected his application for recall of HC’s order directing CBI and ED to probe his alleged role in the teachers recruitment scam case. A bench of Chief Justice D Y Chandrachud and Justice P S Narasimha said that it agreed with the Calcutta HC that the ED probe cannot be interdicted at an incipient stage. However, it kept legal remedies open for Banerjee and clarified that the HC orders and SC’s order would not prejudice his rights under criminal procedure code. “At this stage, we are not inclined to interfere with the impugned order since the consequence of doing so would be to stifle the investigations at the incipient stage.” the bench said.