Trinamool Congress (TMC) General Secretary Abhishek Banerjee has landed at the Kolkata airport on Thursday evening around 4 pm. The TMC second-in-command was surrounded by a huge crowd of reporters soon after he stepped out of the airport, asking him whether he intends to visit the Crime Investigation Department (CID) headquarters at Bhabani Bhawan at 6 pm.
As per latest reports, Abhishek arrived at the Kolkata airport at around 4:45 pm and headed towarads CID headquarters Bhabani Bhaban. However, he took a detour at Harish Mukherjee road and headed towards his flat on Kalighat road. He went inside his flat at around 5:15 pm.
The CID has been issuing several summons to the Diamond Harbour MP while the latter was in Delhi attending a series of meetings with the Opposition bloc as the TMC faced unprecedented political turbulance amid mass resignations both at the assembly and the parliamentary levels, following its defeat in the recently concluded West Bengal Assembly elections.
🎥 | TMC National General Secretary Abhishek Banerjee has returned to Kolkata. The Calcutta High Court has ordered him to appear at the CID office at 6 p.m. today in connection with an alleged signature forgery case. #AbhishekBanerjee #BengalPolitics #TheStatesman pic.twitter.com/xwkzFPn6qX
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Earlier in the day, the Calcutta High Court granted Abhishek interim protection from arrest in the alleged signature forgery case, while directing him to appear before the CID for questioning at 6 pm. The relief comes as the investigation into alleged forged signatures on a proposal linked to the appointment of the Leader of Opposition deepens.
Hearing the case, Justice Kaushik Chandra directed that no coercive action should be taken against the Diamond Harbour MP for the next three weeks. The court, however, made it clear that Banerjee must cooperate fully with investigators and present himself before the CID’s Kolkata office for questioning after returning from Delhi.
The court said that the state investigating agency would be free to conduct search and seizure operations in accordance with the law if required for the probe.
“This court is of the view that for securing documents the investigating agency is at liberty to do search and seizure as per law,” the judge said. The court further said that if additional interrogation is required, the agency must issue a 24-hour notice before summoning him.
“The petitioner shall cooperate with the agency and the agency is at liberty to interrogate him, for which the petitioner shall meet the agency as and when required,” the court said.