The Calcutta High Court on Monday heard a plea moved by Rujira Banerjee, wife of TMC MP Abhishek Banerjee, an accused in the multi-tier recruitment scam in West Bengal being investigated by the CBI.
The Calcutta High Court has directed the Enforcement Directorate (“ED”) which is investigating the multi-tier recruitment scam in West Bengal, to first go through the documents submitted by accused MP.
The Enforcement Directorate (ED) has issued another summons to Trinamool Congress General Secretary Abhishek Banerjee to join their investigation on October 9. This comes after Banerjee failed to appear on October 3 due to the party s protests in Delhi. Banerjee has accused the BJP-led government of using this as a tactic to suppress the protests.
On Tuesday (October 3), the Supreme Court had underlined that the Enforcement Directorate (ED) is “not expected to be vindictive in its conduct” and ruled that the agency must furnish the grounds of arrest in writing to the accused at the time of arrest.
The Calcutta High Court today expressed serious doubts over the investigation being conducted by the CBI and ED into the multi-tier Cash-for-jobs scam, in which various high-level functionaries of the.