Kolkata, June 5 (IANS) A single-judge vacation bench of the Calcutta High Court, on Friday, rejected the plea from Abhishek Banerjee, the Trinamool Congress general secretary and the party’s Lok Sabha member, to fast-track the hearing on his petition challenging the CID summons for interrogation in the MLA signature mismatch case. The case involves a mismatch in the signatures of some of the party’s MLAs on a resolution nominating legislators to four crucial slots in the Assembly.Abhishek Bane…
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Kolkata, June 4 (IANS) A team of the Criminal Investigation Department (CID) of West Bengal Police visited the house of Trinamool Congress MLA and former Kolkata Mayor Firhad Hakim in connection with the investigation into the forged signatures incident in the state Assembly. The former mayor will be questioned about the signature incident. Apart from this, handwriting samples of three more Trinamool MLAs were collected in court on Thursday in this incident. They are Canning Purba MLA Baharul Is…
Guwahati, June 4 (IANS) The Gauhati High Court on Thursday did not entertain the bail plea of Siddhartha Sarma, one of the prime accused in the high-profile death case involving Assamese singer Zubeen Garg, resulting in the scheduled hearing not taking place.According to legal sources, the bail application filed by Sarma was not accepted for hearing by the Bench of Justice Parthivjyoti Saikia. As a result, no substantive hearing on the plea was conducted on Thursday.Meanwhile, Chetan Dhiracharia…
Kolkata, June 3 (IANS) Rathindra Bose, the new Speaker of the West Bengal Assembly, on Wednesday accepted the resolution of the new block in Trinamool Congress’s legislative party as both the official Trinamool Congress block and the principal opposition party in the House.Earlier in the day, 58 out of the 80 elected legislators of Trinamool Congress, led by expelled party legislator Ritabrata Banerjee, submitted a resolution carrying the signatures of the 58 legislators, seeking recognition bot…
Kolkata, June 3 (IANS) It is now official that the Trinamool Congress has split a month after the party faced a landslide defeat in the recently concluded West Bengal Assembly elections. Out of the total 80 Trinamool Congress legislators in the Assembly, 58 have revolted under the leadership of the expelled party legislators Ritabrata Banerjee and Sandipan Saha.On Wednesday, a new resolution, carrying the signatures of these 58 legislators, was submitted in the Assembly, claiming to be the actua…
Kolkata, June 3 (IANS) Trinamool Congress General Secretary and the party’s Lok Sabha member, Abhishek Banerjee, on Wednesday approached a single-judge vacation bench of the Calcutta High Court challenging the summons from the Criminal Investigation Department (CID) of the West Bengal Police for interrogation in the signature mismatch case.The case involves a mismatch in the signatures of some of the party’s MLAs on a resolution nominating party MLAs to four crucial slots in the Assembly, whic…
Kolkata, June 3 (IANS) Ritabrata Banerjee, the expelled Trinamool Congress legislator from Uluberia (Purba) constituency in Howrah district, arrived at the West Bengal Assembly on Wednesday with letters of support from 59 party MLAs, claiming that their faction is the principal opposition party in the state and not the minority group still owing allegiance to former Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee and her nephew Abhishek Banerjee.While Ritabrata entered the Assembly premises at around 10.30 a.m.,…
Srinagar, June 3 (IANS) The Counter Intelligence Kashmir wing of the Jammu and Kashmir Police on Wednesday carried out raids at multiple places across the Valley in connection with terror-related cases.Officials said that the Counter Intelligence Kashmir (CIK) started searches at eight locations across six districts of the union territory in connection with an ongoing investigation into Pakistan-sponsored terrorist networks, sleeper cells and activities related to recruitment, radicalisation and…
Kolkata, June 2 (IANS) Amid the accelerating controversies over the signature mismatches of Trinamool Congress legislators in a resolution naming party MLAs for four crucial positions in the West Bengal Assembly which are reserved for the Opposition bench, Trinamool Congress General Secretary and the party’s Lok Sabha member, Abhishek Banerjee on Tuesday wrote a second letter to the Assembly Speaker Rathindra Bose, naming the same four party legislators for the four Assembly posts reserved for t…
Kolkata, June 2 (IANS) A day after Trinamool Congress expelled its party legislator Ritabrata Banerjee, the Uluberia (Purba) MLA on Tuesday afternoon launched a scathing attack against the party’s General Secretary and Lok Sabha member, Abhishek Banerjee.Ritabrata Banerjee claimed that after facing “public anguish” at Sonarpur in South 24 Parganas district on the afternoon of May 30, Abhishek Banerjee had now sought Central Armed Police Forces (CAPF) security cover for himself.“What kind o…