Archive · 3 Aug 2026
Supreme Court to Hear TMC Plea Against ED Account Freeze
The Supreme Court will listen to a request from the Trinamool Congress, a political party in India, to undo a decision that stopped them from using three bank accounts.
The Enforcement Directorate, a government agency, froze the accounts because it thought money might have been moved illegally.
The court said it could not decide if the money was legal yet, so it did not give the party relief.
The party says the freeze was unfair and part of a political attack after a change in West Bengal’s government.
The case will be heard by a bench of two judges on Monday.
Supreme Court to hear TMC plea against ED freeze of 3 HDFC Bank accounts
ED froze accounts after ECIR based on FIR from Cyber Crime Police, Bidhannagar
High Court refused interim relief on July 20, citing lack of prima facie case
Accounts involved Rs 164 crore; 36 other accounts remain active
Petitioners claim freeze is mechanical, arbitrary, and politically motivated
- Who
- Trinamool Congress and its Rajya Sabha member Dola Sen
- What
- Supreme Court to hear a plea challenging the Enforcement Directorate's freezing of three party bank accounts
- When
- Hearing scheduled for Monday, 2024-08-05
- Where
- Supreme Court of India, New Delhi
- Why
- Petitioners argue the freeze is arbitrary and mechanical, lacking identification of specific proceeds of crime
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Petitioners
- Trinamool Congress and Dola Sen
- Frozen Accounts
- 3 HDFC Bank accounts
- Amount
- Rs 164 crore
- ED Action
- Freeze under PMLA Section 17(1-A)
- High Court Decision
- Refused interim relief on July 20
- Date of Hearing
- Monday, 2024-08-05
