Divan: Central government is asking for relief in... ... ED v West Bengal & Mamata Banerjee Over IPAC Raid : Live Updates From Supreme Court

Divan: Central government is asking for relief in respect of part 3 of the Constitution of India. It is very interesting and the court will have to look into whether the central government can complain that the state government is violating its fundamental rights

Divan: persons maybe citizens but may not have to be is citizens. For example even a foreigner has certain fundamental rights. But there has to be some form of personality which ED as a govt dept does not have

Divan: if we allow this then a situation can arise where Article 32 is being used by one department against another department or between two States or between Centre or and the states. This is really to be appropriately decided by a panel of 5 judges.

Divan gives history of formation and evolution of the Enforcement Directorate.

Divan: It was and enforcement unit of the department of economic affairs. In 1960 the administrative control was moved from the department of economic affairs to the department of revenue. So it was really a department within a department.