India, Jan. 8 -- High drama erupted in West Bengal's Kolkata on Thursday when chief minister Mamata Banerjee "rushed" to the residence of Pratik Jain, the head of top political consultancy group I-PAC, amid Enforcement Directorate (ED) raids, during which she claimed officials attempted to seize her party Trinamool Congress's (TMC) hard disks as well as internal documents and sensitive data.

Search operations, which ED said were linked to a money laundering case investigation, were also conducted at the office of the I-PAC, (Indian Political Action Committee), which does political consultancy for West Bengal ruling party TMC and also looks after its IT and media cell.

In videos of her visit to Jain's residence and office that surfaced o...