The Supreme Court will hear a petition on January 15 filed by the Enforcement Directorate (ED). The ED wants a Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) probe into the alleged obstruction during its raids at the offices of political consultancy firm I-PAC and its co-founder Pratik Jain in Kolkata. The ED accuses West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee, state officials, and others of blocking these raids. The petition will be heard by a Bench of Justices Prashant Kumar Mishra and Vipul M. Pancholi. The ED has named the State of West Bengal, Mamata Banerjee, the State’s Director General of Police, the Kolkata Police Commissioner, the Deputy Commissioner of Police South Kolkata, and the CBI in the petition. The State government has filed a caveat to prevent the Supreme Court from passing orders without hearing it. This hearing comes a day after the Calcutta High Court dismissed a Trinamool Congress petition on January 14. The ED said it did not seize anything from I-PAC or Mr. Jain’s premises. It blamed Mamata Banerjee for removing records and devices from the raid sites. The High Court postponed the ED’s plea about obstruction after the Additional Solicitor General S.V. Raju told the court about the similar petition pending in the Supreme Court. Mamata Banerjee claims the raids were meant to weaken the Trinamool Congress before the 2026 Assembly elections. The Trinamool Congress had worked with I-PAC for election strategies after the 2021 elections. The ED says the Chief Minister’s actions disturbed a legal probe into a coal smuggling syndicate and linked hawala money. The ED called the removal of evidence and the raid disruption a “gross obstruction of justice.” It described the raid sites as scenes of a “showdown” caused by illegal State intervention. The ED stated the raids followed strict legal rules and related to investigations into coal smuggling and hawala money. Published - January 14, 2026 05:18 pm IST