Trinamool Congress (TMC) general secretary Abhishek Banerjee arrived at the Crime Investigation Department (CID) headquarters at Bhabani Bhawan hours after he landed in Kolkata from the national capital.
The TMC second-in-command acted as per the Calcutta High Court’s order which had earlier directed him to cooperate with the investigation and abide by CID’s summons before 6 pm on Thursday.
Abhishek landed at the city’s airport on Thursday around 4 pm. He was surrounded by a huge crowd of reporters soon after he stepped outside the arrival zone, as apprehensions were high whether the Diamond Harbour MP would be following the court’s directions.
#WATCH | West Bengal: TMC National General Secretary Abhishek Banerjee arrives at CID Office Bhawani Bhawan Alipore, Kolkata.
The Calcutta High Court has ordered him to visit the CID office in connection with an alleged signature forgery case. pic.twitter.com/thtv8DPeSK
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As per reports, Abhishek arrived at the airport at around 4:45 pm and headed towards his flat on Kalighat road. He went inside his flat at around 5:15 pm, before leaving for the CID headquarters.
The CID has been issuing several summons to Abhishek while the latter was in Delhi attending a series of meetings with the Opposition bloc as his party faced unprecedented political turbulance amid mass resignations both at the assembly and the parliamentary levels, following its recent drubbing in the West Bengal elections.
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 case pertained to alleged forged signatures on a proposal linked to the appointment of the Leader of Opposition.
Hearing the case, Justice Kaushik Chandra had directed that no coercive action should be taken against Abhishek for the next three weeks. The court, however, asked him to fully cooperate with investigators and present himself before the CID’s Kolkata office after returning from Delhi.
The court said that the CID 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.