SC declines relief to TMC over frozen bank accounts, asks Calcutta HC to expedite hearing

Parmod Kumar New Delhi, Oct 1 (UNI) In a setback to the Mamata Banerjee-led Trinamool Congress, the Supreme Court on Thursday declined to grant any relief against the freezing of four of the party's bank accounts by the State police and instead asked the Calcutta High Court to expedite the proceedings pending before it. A bench comprising Justice M.M. Sundresh and Justice P.B. Varale refrained from examining the challenge on its merits, noting that the Election Commission of India had, through an interim order, frozen the party's name and symbol and that the larger dispute over which TMC faction would…