Kolkata, June 29 (IANS) There is uncertainty surrounding the hearing of the plea filed by Trinamool Congress MP Abhishek Banerjee in the Calcutta High Court against the Criminal Investigation Department’s (CID) decision to collect his voice sample in his ‘DJ remark’ case. On Monday, Abhishek’s plea against CID’s move to collect his voice sample was not heard in the High Court. It is also unclear whether it will be heard on Tuesday.On the orders of the lower court, Abhishek will have to appear at…
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Kolkata, June 18 (IANS) West Bengal’s Criminal Investigation Department (CID) officers on Thursday once again raided Harish Chatterjee Street in south Kolkata’s Kalighat area. This time, CID officers visited the residence of Mamata Banerjee’s sister-in-law, who is also the aunt of Trinamool Congress National General Secretary Abhishek Banerjee.The raid started from 2 p.m. onwards. The CID team left the house before 3 p.m. The detectives were present at the residence of Abhishek Banerjee’s aunt f…
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) 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, May 30 (IANS) A team of the Criminal Investigation Department (CID) of the West Bengal Police on Saturday visited the residence of Trinamool Congress general secretary Abhishek Banerjee at Harish Mukherjee Road in South Kolkata. Security personnel informed the sleuths that no one had been staying there for the last few days. While the CID team was at the Harish Mukherjee Road property, Banerjee was present at the residence of the party’s state general secretary and legislator Kunal Gh…
Kolkata, May 14 (IANS) Kolkata Police Deputy Commissioner Shantanu Sinha Biswas appeared at the Enforcement Directorate (ED) office here on Thursday for questioning in a criminal-linked syndicate case.The development comes two days after the ED wrote a letter to the Directorate of Security, asking to know the status of Biswas and whether he was serving any duty. This was done to make the police officer, who had skipped multiple summons of the agency, appear before the ED officers.The central inv…
Kolkata, May 5 (IANS) Following the fall of the Mamata Banerjee government in West Bengal, Trinamool Congress leader and in charge of the party’s Hindi-speaking cell, Vivek Gupta, has resigned from all party posts. He announced this in a social media post late on Monday night. Gupta wrote that he was waiting for further instructions from the party leadership.Vivek Gupta was not given a ticket in this Assembly election. Trinamool had fielded Vijay Upadhyay from the Jorasanko Assembly constituency…
Kolkata, April 29 (IANS) Congress leader Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury on Wednesday claimed that an “anti-incumbency wave” is prevailing in West Bengal and suggested that Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee appears “restless” as polling for the second phase of the Assembly elections continues across the state.Speaking to reporters, Chowdhury said, “There is an anti-incumbency wave, but in this wave, which party will benefit, it’s tough to say now because the votes of the opposition will be divided. However,…
Kolkata, April 29 (IANS) The central forces deployed at Bhabanipur Assembly constituency in South Kolkata, which is witnessing the electoral battle between West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee and Suvendu Adhikari, the Leader of Opposition in the West Bengal Assembly, resorted to a baton charge to disperse agitated Trinamool Congress activists.The Trinamool workers were staging a protest and shouting slogans against the LoP in the Kalighat area, quite close to the official residence of the…
Agartala, April 20 (IANS) Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh chief Mohan Bhagwat arrived in Agartala on Monday to participate in the Prana Pratishtha ceremony of the Maa Chinmayi Soundarya Temple in West Tripura’s Mohanpur on April 21 The ceremony is scheduled to take place on Tuesday at Fakira Mura in Mohanpur, coinciding with the observance of Adi Shankaracharya Jayanti.According to Amit Rakshit, President of the Chinmaya Seva Trust under Chinmaya Mission International, both the Prana Pratish…