Kolkata, June 12 (IANS) Trinamool Congress general secretary and Lok Sabha member Abhishek Banerjee on Friday evening said he will cooperate with the West Bengal Police’s Criminal Investigation Department (CID) if summoned for interrogation. On Friday, a team of CID officials reached his residence at Kalighat Road in South Kolkata, reportedly to serve him a notice in connection with a case where he had been accused of inciting violence and threatening Union Home Minister Amit Shah before the rec…
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Kolkata, June 12 (IANS) With dissent within the Trinamool Congress refusing to abate, MP Kirti Azad accused the BJP on Friday of causing the rift within the Mamata Banerjee-led party, quipping: “Operation Lotus never fails”.The former cricketer’s reaction comes after three pages carrying signatures of 19 rebel Trinamool MPs surfaced earlier in the day, reportedly claiming to be the main and majority bloc of the party’s representation in the Lok Sabha.Speaking to IANS, Azad said: “There is no l…
Kolkata, June 12 (IANS) Trinamool Congress general secretary and the party’s Lok Sabha member, Abhishek Banerjee, has been asked to appear before the CID again in the MLAs’ signature mismatch case on June 14, said officials on Friday.He was grilled for almost six hours and released a little before midnight on Thursday at the headquarters of the Criminal Investigation Department (CID) in South Kolkata.Abhishek Banerjee, also the nephew of the former West Bengal Chief Minister, Mamata Banerjee, …
Kolkata, June 11 (IANS) The Criminal Investigation Department (CID) of the West Bengal Police on Friday was handed over the charge of the probe in another case against Trinamool Congress general secretary and Lok Sabha member Abhishek Banerjee, where he had been accused of inciting violence and threatening Union Home Minister Amit Shah before the recently concluded assembly polls in the state. Last month, an FIR was registered against Abhishek Banerjee, also the nephew of former West Bengal Chie…
Kolkata, June 11 (IANS) A single-judge vacation bench of the Calcutta High Court has refused to pass any interim protective order on the decision of the new West Bengal Assembly Speaker, Rathindra Bose, to accept expelled Trinamool Congress legislator Ritabrata Banerjee as the leader of the majority bloc of the Trinamool Congress in the House and also as the official Leader of the Opposition (LoP).A petition was filed earlier this week challenging the Speaker’s decision. The matter came up for h…
Kolkata, June 11 (IANS) A single-judge vacation bench of the Calcutta High Court, on Thursday, directed Trinamool Congress general secretary and Lok Sabha member Abhishek Banerjee to appear before the CID by 6 p.m. and join the investigation. Banerjee has been asked to report at the headquarters of the Criminal Investigation Department (CID) at Bhabani Bhavan in South Kolkata and face interrogation.A crucial hearing on Abhishek Banerjee’s petition challenging the summons from CID for interroga…
Kolkata, June 10 (IANS) The Calcutta High Court on Wednesday will hear the petition by Trinamool Congress’s General Secretary Abhishek Banerjee challenging the Criminal Investigation Department (CID) summons to him in the legislators’ signature mismatch case.Last week, Banerjee, also the nephew of the party chief and former West Bengal Chief Minister, Mamata Banerjee, approached the single-judge vacation bench of Justice Chaitali Chatterjee Das, challenging the CID summons and seeking protec…
Kolkata, June 9 (IANS) The leaders of the faction in Trinamool Congress that continues allegiance towards the former West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee and her nephew and the party’s General Secretary, Abhishek Banerjee on Tuesday raised their voice against the raids and search operations earlier in the day conducted by the sleuths of Criminal Investigation Department (CID) of state police at the party office adjacent to the former Chief Minister’s residence at Kalighat and another offic…
Kolkata, June 9 (IANS) All focus in the political circles in West Bengal will be on the headquarters of the Criminal Investigation Department (CID) at Bhabani Bhavan in South Kolkata on Tuesday, with the main question being whether Trinamool Congress’ general secretary and the party’s Lok Sabha member, Abhishek Banerjee, will ultimately appear there and face interrogation in the signature mismatch case.The case was filed after complaints were made by some Trinamool MLAs alleging that signatu…
Kolkata, June 8 (IANS) The Criminal Investigation Department (CID) of West Bengal Police on Monday issued a fresh notice to Trinamool Congress General Secretary and the party’s Lok Sabha member, Abhishek Banerjee, asking him to be present at the CID headquarters in south Kolkata by 5 p.m. on Tuesday for questioning in relation to an ongoing CID probe into alleged mismatches in the signatures of some Trinamool Congress legislators in a crucial resolution pertaining to appointments to key posts …