Updated Feb 21, 2021 | 14:55 IST
The CBI officials have reached the TMC MP s residence in Kolkata to serve notice to his wife in the coal scam case, sources within the probe agency said. TMC MP Abhishek Banerjee | Photo Credit: PTI
Kolkata: A three-member team of the Central Bureau of Investigation on Sunday visited TMC MP and West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee s nephew Abhishek Banerjee s residence ahead of the upcoming Assembly elections in the state.
CBI officials have reached the TMC MP s residence in south Kolkata to serve notice to his wife to join the probe in the coal smuggling case, sources within the probe agency said.
CBI summons TMC MP Abhishek Banerjee’s wife in coal smuggling case
The CBI has summoned TMC MP and Mamata Banerjee’s nephew Abhishek Banerjee s wife Rujira Banerjee to join its probe in the alleged coal smuggling case.
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TMC MP Abhishek Banerjee’s wife Rujira Banerjee has been summoned in the CBI probe.
A CBI team has reached the residence of TMC MP and Mamata Banerjee’s nephew Abhishek Banerjee in Kolkata to summon his wife Rujira Banerjee to join its probe in the alleged coal smuggling case.
This is for the first time that the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) has landed at Abhishek Banerjee s residence in the coal smuggling case in which the probe agency conducted multiple raids at several locations across Bengal recently.
Coal theft case: CBI issues notice to Abhishek Banerjee s wife, sister-in-law
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February 21, 2021
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The team handed over the notice issued by Investigation Officer Umesh Kumar, Additional Superintendent of Police in the CBI, in connection with the case of theft of coal from Eastern Coalfields Ltd in West Bengal in which Anup Manjhi is the alleged mastermind, sources said.
The CBI on Sunday served a notice to the wife of TMC leader and Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee s nephew Abhishek Banerjee at his Kolkata residence asking her to join the probe in the coal pilferage case, a development that could further raise the political temperature in poll-bound West Bengal. The team is likely to question Abhishek Banerjee s wife Rujira Banerjee in connection with the case at her residence, sources said. The central probe agency had on Friday carried out a fresh round of searches in connection with the case, they said. The CBI had registered an FIR in November last year against the alleged kingpin of the pilferage racket Manjhi alias Lala, Eastern Coalfield Ltd General Managers Amit Kumar Dhar (of then Kunustoria area now Pandaveswar area) and Jayesh Chandra Rai (Kajor area) besides ECL Chief of Security Tanmay Das, Area Security Inspector, Kunustoria Dhananjay Rai and SSI and security in-charge Kajor area Debashish Mukherjee.