ED DIRECTOR LANDS IN KOLKATA, ASKS OFFICERS PROBE WITHOUT 'FEAR OR FAVOUR'

Four days after his men were assaulted along with their CRPF escorts while raiding two district-level Trinamool Congress leaders in the ration distribution scam, Enforcement Directorate chief Rahul Navin flew into Kolkata late on Monday night and met his officers.

- SUPROTIM MUKHERJEE

According to sources present in the meeting, the ED director told his officers to "carry on with the probes into the multiple corruption investigations in the state without fear or favour".

All ED officials of the Bengal zone, including the three who had been injured in the mob attacks, are learnt to have participated in the meeting.

The ED director was briefed about the attacks and also shown the video footage of the twin assaults.

Apart from talking up the morale of his officers, the ED chief also met the West Bengal Governor CV Ananda Bose at Raj Bhavan to apprise him about the progress of the investigations and what steps were being contemplated to ensure that investigators do not face any problems while conducting probes in West Bengal.