India, July 1 -- The Calcutta High Court on Tuesday refused an urgent hearing to a petition by the Mamata Banerjee-led Trinamool Congress over the freezing of its bank accounts.

Authorities placed a debit freeze on three TMC bank accounts, following complaints by rebel MLAs seeking a probe into the source of the funds. Refusing to give precedence in hearing of the petition by the Mamata Banerjee-led faction of the TMC, Justice Saugata Bhattacharyya said the matter will come up for hearing according to the listing serial.

The Mamata Banerjee-led faction's lawyer, Kishore Dutta, informed the court that three bank accounts of the party have been placed under debit freeze, blocking all outward transactions from these accounts, and sought an...