CBI Serves Notice to Wife of Mamata Banerjee s Nephew Abhishek in Coal Pilferage Case
The central probe agency had on Friday carried out a fresh round of searches in connection with the case.
Diamond Harbour MP and Mamata Banerjee s nephew, Abhishek Banerjee. Photo: Twitter/@abhishekaitc
Politics21/Feb/2021
Kolkata: The CBI on Sunday, February 21, 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 assembly elections are due in April-May in Bengal. The BJP has launched a vigorous campaign to oust the ruling TMC that had secured consecutive wins in 2011 and 2016 under Mamata Banerjee.
CBI summons TMC MP Abhishek Banerjee’s wife in 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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TMC alleges political vendetta A CBI team on Sunday went to the Kolkata residence of Abhishek Banerjee, TMC MP and Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee s nephew, serving a notice to his wife and sister-in-law to join the probe in the coal pilferage case, a development that has further raised the political temperature in poll-bound West Bengal.
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.