Overview
- Income Tax teams searched TMC MLA Debashish Kumar’s home, nearby party offices, and a relative’s flat for nearly 15 hours on Friday, while another team examined Miraj Shah’s Elgin Road residence.
- Officials described the action as an effort to trace unaccounted money and to follow Enforcement Directorate inquiries into alleged land grabs linked to Kumar.
- TMC workers gathered outside Kumar’s residence as Mamata Banerjee denounced the timing as political, and central security forces controlled access at each location.
- Kumar said he lost a day of campaigning and that officers were cordial, and reporters later saw tax officials leave his house carrying bags.
- BJP leaders defended the agencies and accused the TMC of corruption, while the operation, days before April 23 and 29 voting, deepened a recurring fight over federal probes in West Bengal elections.