Kolkata, July 5 (IANS) The “original but minority” faction in the Trinamool Congress, which continues its allegiance towards former West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee and her nephew Abhishek Banerjee, has alleged a deliberate and massive deployment of state and central forces in front of the residence of the two leaders at Kalighat in south Kolkata, allegedly to prevent them from visiting the family of a child who was allegedly raped and murdered in Baruipur in South 24 Parganas district…
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Kolkata, July 5 (IANS) Trinamool Congress general secretary Abhishek Banerjee on Sunday sent documents to Kalighat police station in a case of violation of Motor Vehicle Act, 1988. The police had asked for several documents from the Diamond Harbour MP. On Sunday, his representative went to the police station and submitted the documents.However, according to sources, the documents are incomplete. Not everything that was asked for was given. Therefore, the police may send another notice to Abhishe…
Kolkata, July 5 (IANS) A second FIR has been filed in South 24 Parganas district’s Diamond Harbour against Trinamool Congress general secretary and Lok Sabha member Abhishek Banerjee and others over the ‘Sebaashray’ health camp, said the police on Sunday. This time, the Bishnupur police station has registered the FIR against Banerjee and others, based on the complaint of local BJP leader Abhijit Das (Bobby). The case has been registered under multiple sections.The list also includes Banerjee’s a…
Kolkata, July 5 (IANS) The investigators of the West Bengal Police are attempting to locate Sumit Roy, the absconding executive assistant to the Trinamool Congress general secretary and Lok Sabha member, Abhishek Banerjee, by conducting extensive interrogations of Debraj Chakraborty, a former Trinamool Congress councillor who was apprehended last week in connection with a disproportionate assets (DA) caseA source within the state police said the questioning of Chakraborty is based on particular …
Kolkata, July 4 (IANS) Trinamool Congress general secretary Abhishek Banerjee has yet to submit documents in a recent traffic violation case, police sources said on Saturday evening. Banerjee was accused of violating the Motor Vehicle Act, 1988. Based on that allegation, the Kalighat police sent a notice to the Diamond Harbour MP and requested certain documents.Although the documents were supposed to be submitted to the police station by Saturday, police sources said that they have not received …
New Delhi, July 3 (IANS) With every passing day and supplementary claims of being the “real” Trinamool Congress coming from separate factions, Mamata Banerjee’s face as the leading light appears to be fading among rebel bloc members. Even as the Trinamool Congress began disintegrating after an adverse mandate in the West Bengal Assembly election this year, it appeared the larger ire of the rebels was aimed at party General Secretary Abhishek Banerjee. His aunt and founder-Chairperson Mamat…
Kolkata, July 3 (IANS) The ongoing tension between two rival camps in Trinamool Congress’s legislative party in the West Bengal Assembly escalated further on Friday with the “rebel but majority” faction led by expelled party legislator Ritabrata Banerjee taking control of Trinamool Congress’s main party office at Metropolitan on Eastern Metropolitan Bypass in the city this evening. A team of legislators from the party’s “rebel but majority” faction led by Ritabrata, currently the official Leader…
Kolkata, July 3 (IANS) A single-judge bench of the Calcutta High Court on Friday extended the interim protection from coercive police action, including arrest, for Trinamool Congress general secretary and Lok Sabha member Abhishek Banerjee in the ongoing CID probe into the West Bengal legislators’ signature mismatch case. However, while granting the extension till July 17 in the case of mismatches in the signatures of some Trinamool Congress legislators on a crucial signature on some crucial app…
Kolkata, July 3 (IANS) A single-judge Bench of the Calcutta High Court on Friday rejected a plea by Trinamool Congress’ General Secretary Abhishek Banerjee, for a fast-track hearing on his petition seeking exemption from providing a voice sample to the Criminal Investigation Department (CID) of West Bengal Police.The CID seeks to collect Abhishek Banerjee’s voice samples in the case where he is accused of making inciting statements and threatening Union Home Minister Amit Shah at a campaign ra…
Kolkata, July 3 (IANS) A division bench of the Calcutta High Court on Friday directed former West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee and her nephew, Trinamool Congress’ general secretary Abhishek Banerjee, to file affidavits in a contempt of court case filed against them earlier.Earlier on June 19, the division bench of the Justice Arjit Banerjee and Justice Apurba Sinha Roy served a contempt of court notice to Mamata Banerjee and Abhishek Banerjee in a case about the Trinamool Congress ann…