CID reaches Abhishek Banerjee’s residence with notice in pre-poll violence case

Kolkata, June 12 (IANS) A team of officers from the Criminal Investigation Department (CID) of West Bengal Police arrived at the residence of Trinamool Congress General Secretary and the party’s Lok Sabha member Abhishek Banerjee on Friday evening, reportedly to serve him a notice in connection with a case in which he has been accused of inciting violence and threatening Union Home Minister Amit Shah before the recently concluded Assembly polls in the state.

Last month, an FIR was registered against Abhishek Banerjee, who is also the nephew of former West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee, at the Bidhannagar Cyber Crime Police Station under the Bidhannagar City Police. Officers of the cybercrime police station had been conducting the probe earlier until the investigation was handed over to the CID on Thursday.

However, when the team of CID officials arrived at Abhishek Banerjee’s residence on Kalighat Road on Friday evening, he was not present there and was reportedly at the residence of Mamata Banerjee, which is located quite close to his own residence.

At the time of filing this report, the CID sleuths were waiting outside Abhishek Banerjee’s residence to hand over the notice to him. While the CID officials were waiting outside the locked entrance gate of his residence, a team of lawyers was also present on the other side of the gate.

On Thursday, Abhishek Banerjee faced a marathon grilling by CID officials for around six hours at the state investigation agency’s headquarters in south Kolkata in connection with the agency’s ongoing probe into alleged mismatches in the signatures of a number of Trinamool Congress legislators on a crucial resolution pertaining to appointments to important positions in the West Bengal Assembly that are reserved for the Opposition bench.

In the same matter, Abhishek Banerjee has been asked to appear at the CID headquarters again on June 14.

Earlier this month, the Enforcement Directorate (ED) also served him a notice for questioning in the multi-crore cash-for-school jobs case in West Bengal. In that notice, he was asked to be present at the ED’s Salt Lake office on June 15.

–IANS

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