Overview
- The High Court vacation bench on May 29 refused interim relief to Trinamool Congress leader Sujit Bose and directed the ED to file a detailed investigation report for hearing by a regular bench after the court’s summer vacation.
- The ED says its money‑laundering probe grew from documents seized in related searches and alleges a traced money trail and large‑scale irregular municipal hires between 2014 and 2016.
- Investigators have reported raids, bank‑record checks and alleged transfers including sums routed to a restaurant account and to Bose’s personal account that the agency calls suspicious.
- Bose’s defence argues the CBI’s final chargesheet in the recruitment probe does not name him and says the ED has not shown the required ‘predicate offence’ or a clear money trail linking him to the alleged hires.
- Bose, a former state minister and municipal vice‑chairman who lost a recent assembly bid, remains in ED/judicial custody and the court’s demand for a formal ED report signals closer judicial scrutiny of the agency’s evidence and legal basis under the Prevention of Money Laundering Act.