New Delhi, April 22 -- The Supreme Court on Wednesday strongly deprecated West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee's storming into the premises of Pratik Jain - the co-founder of political consultancy firm I-PAC - when the Enforcement Directorate (ED) was carrying out searches on January 8, this year, observing that such conduct by a constitutional functionary has the potential to undermine democratic processes.
Terming it "extraordinary", a Bench of Justices Prashant Kumar Mishra and N V Anjaria, said, "A Chief Minister of any State cannot walk in the midst of an investigation, put the democracy in peril. This is per se an act committed by an individual who happens to be the Chief Minister, keeping the whole democracy in jeopardy."The s...