CBI probing cases in West Bengal under court orders, no state govt can stop it: CPI(M)

The CPI(M) Saturday said the CBI was investigating cases in West Bengal under court orders and no state government could "obstruct" such probes.

Communist Party of India (Marxist) general secretary Sitaram Yechury asserted that the Left party was against the misuse of the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) for political gains and expected the probe agency to favour neither Prime Minister Narendra Modi nor West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee.

"We are against the misuse of the CBI for political purposes. We are in favour of justice, not in favour of Modi or Mamata," he told reporters at the CPI(M) office here.

The West Bengal government Friday withdrew the "general consent" accorded to the CBI to conduct raids or probes in the state.

The decision came close on the heels of a similar step taken by the Andhra Pradesh government.

Differentiating between the stand of his party and that of Banerjee, who is also the Trinamool Congress (TMC) chief, on CBI, Yechury said, "We are (even) against the misuse of the CBI in favour of Mamata Banerjee."