Kolkata, June 11 (IANS) Nearly six hours after Trinamool Congress General Secretary and the party’s Lok Sabha member Abhishek Banerjee appeared at the headquarters of the Criminal Investigation Department (CID) of the West Bengal Police on Thursday evening to face questioning in connection with the legislators’ signature mismatch case, the interrogation was still underway.As per the order of a single-judge vacation bench of the Calcutta High Court earlier in the day, Abhishek Banerjee, who is al…
Latest Criminal Investigation Department News & Updates
Kolkata, June 11 (IANS) Trinamool Congress General Secretary and the party’s Lok Sabha member, Abhishek Banerjee, had arrived at the headquarters of the Criminal Investigation Department (CID) of the West Bengal Police on Thursday to face questioning in connection with the legislators’ signature mismatch case. Earlier in the day, a single-judge vacation bench of Justice Kaushik Chanda had directed Abhishek Banerjee, also the nephew of the former West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee, to app…
Kolkata, June 11 (IANS) In a startling turn of events, four-time Trinamool Congress Lok Sabha member and senior advocate Kalyan Banerjee, on Thursday, refrained from appearing on behalf of the party’s general secretary and MP Abhishek Banerjee in the Calcutta High Court in a case.A petition by Abhishek Banerjee challenges the summons to him by the Criminal Investigation Department (CID) of West Bengal Police in the legislators’ signature mismatch case and also seeks interim protection from coe…
Kolkata, June 10 (IANS) The Trinamool Congress (TMC) on Wednesday moved the Calcutta High Court, challenging the alleged actions by the state Criminal Investigation Department (CID) at its party offices on Tuesday with regard to the legislators’ signatures mismatch case.In the petition filed at the single-judge vacation court of Justice Saugata Bhattacharyya, on Wednesday morning, the four-time party Lok Sabha member and senior advocate, Kalyan Banerjee, said raids and search operations were c…
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): Trinamool Congress General Secretary Abhishek Banerjee on Tuesday ignored the third consecutive notice from the Criminal Investigation Department (CID) of West Bengal Police for questioning in connection with an ongoing probe in the case of mismatches in signatures of some party legislators in an important resolution pertaining to important positions in the state Assembly, which are reserved for the Opposition bench. Abhishek Banerjee, also the nephew of former Chief Mini…
Kolkata, June 9 (IANS) While one team of the sleuths of the Criminal Investigation Department (CID) of the West Bengal Police have started conducting raid and search operations at a Trinamool Congress party office adjacent to the residence of former Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee at Kalighat in Kolkata on Tuesday, another team of CID sleuths have started a parallel raid and operations at an office at the Camac Street in the city from where the Chief Minister’s nephew and the party’s General Secr…
Kolkata, June 9 (IANS) A team of the Criminal Investigation Department (CID) of the West Bengal Police on Tuesday arrived at a Trinamool Congress party office adjacent to the residence of the former West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee at Kalighat in Kolkata to conduct raid and search operations there. However, at the entrance of the party office, the CID team was obstructed by the former Trinamool Congress Rajya Sabha member Subhasish Chakraborty. He started a heated argument with the CID…
Kolkata, June 8 (IANS) A petition was filed at a single-judge vacation bench of the Calcutta High Court on Monday afternoon, challenging the decision of the new West Bengal Assembly Speaker Rathindra Bose to accept expelled Trinamool Congress legislator Ritabrata Banerjee as the leader of the new majority bloc of Trinamool Congress in the house and also as the official Leader of the Opposition. The petition was filed as the original bloc of party legislators continues to remain aligned with form…
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 …