New Delhi, Feb. 19 -- In response to the West Bengal Government's aspersion that the Enforcement Directorate (ED) has been "weaponised", the central agency on Wednesday clarified before the Supreme Court of India that it is being "terrorised" by the State government, not weaponised.

The counter-cum-clarification came from Additional Solicitor General S.V. Raju to Senior Advocate Siddharth Luthra's opening arguments on behalf of the State in the pleas filed by the ED alleging obstruction by West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee and other officials during a search operation at the Kolkata office of I-PAC, a political consultancy firm linked to the All India Trinamool Congress.

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