New Delhi, Feb. 19 -- The Supreme Court tosday witnessed a sharp exchange between the West Bengal government and the Directorate of Enforcement (ED), with the State alleging that the anti-money laundering agency was being "weaponised" against political opponents, and the ED countering that it was, in fact, being "terrorised".
Senior Advocate Sidharth Luthra, appearing for the West Bengal government, told a Bench of Justices Prashant Kumar Mishra and K.V. Viswanathan that "They will have to justify how an agency can be weaponised like this." Additional Solicitor General S.V. Raju, representing the ED, responded: "No, agency is not weaponised. The agency has been terrorised."The brief but pointed exchange took place during the hearing of the...