Police freeze fresh TMC account, taking the total tally to 15 with funds exceeding 1000 crore

The Trinamool Congress (TMC) has faced a major setback as the state police have frozen another account belonging to the Trinamool. This fresh action follows an official complaint lodged by a TMC MLA from the Ritabrata camp pointing to highly suspicious financial transactions. Although the Calcutta High Court recently granted temporary operational relief regarding three previously frozen accounts, this new wave of sweeping enforcement has brought the total number of restricted party accounts to 15, completely halting monetary transactions.

According to state police sources, formal requests were dispatched to the respective private and state-owned financial institutions, which have fully complied with the police directives to block the accounts. Across all 15 targeted bank accounts, the total cumulative funds are reported to exceed Rs 1000 crore. While the ruling party can currently access only three accounts under strict judicial monitoring, the investigative authorities have officially demanded detailed transaction dossiers and ownership profiles from the concerned banking boards to track the source of these massive funds.

The latest freeze comes immediately after High Court Justice Saugata Bhattacharya ruled on Thursday that the TMC could temporarily operate its initial three accounts, which hold around Rs 440 crore, under the supervision of a special officer. Retired Justice Subrata Talukder has been appointed to this monitoring role until September 30 to countersign transactions and review daily expense logs submitted by authorized signatories. Concurrently, the Enforcement Directorate (ED) has stepped in to parallelly investigate the matter due to deep suspicions of widespread illegal transactions, including traces of accumulated "cut money" and parallel illegal payouts.