The bench mentioned the plea can be heard on Friday.
New Delhi:
The Supreme Court right this moment agreed to listen to on May 26 a plea by senior TMC chief Abhishek Banerjee in opposition to his questioning by the CBI within the faculty jobs rip-off case.
Abhishek Banerjee, who was on May 20 questioned for over 9 hours by the CBI in reference to the probe into the case, has sought the apex court docket course that no coercive steps be taken in opposition to him by the company.
Senior advocate Abhishek Singhvi, showing for Mr Banerjee, talked about the matter for pressing itemizing earlier than a trip bench of Justices Aniruddha Bose and Sanjay Karol.
The bench mentioned the plea can be heard on Friday.
Mr Banerjee’s identify cropped up in a criticism filed by Kuntal Ghosh, an area businessman and an accused within the faculty jobs rip-off, the place he alleged that central investigating businesses had been pressuring him to call Banerjee, who’s the nationwide normal secretary of the TMC, within the case.
The company’s summons got here inside 24 hours of the Calcutta High Court dismissing on Thursday a petition filed by Banerjee in search of recall of a earlier court docket order, which mentioned that investigative businesses such because the CBI and ED may interrogate him within the trainer recruitment rip-off case.
An try on Friday to get a division bench and, after that, the chief justice of the Calcutta High Court to listen to his revision plea didn’t yield outcomes.
While mentioning the matter earlier than the apex court docket, Mr Singhvi mentioned Mr Banerjee has already been quizzed for over 9 hours by the CBI and the TMC chief is apprehending that he could also be arrested if known as in opposition to for questioning by the company.
“I (Banerjee) am asking for no coercive step,” Mr Singhvi informed the bench, whereas requesting it to record the matter for listening to on this week.
The bench agreed to listen to the plea on Friday and informed Singhvi to ask his junior counsel to go to the mentioning officer.
After his questioning was over on May 20, Banerjee had informed the mediapersons conserving vigil outdoors the CBI’s workplace at Nizam Palace in Kolkata, that the questioning was a waste of time for each him and the investigative company’s officers, however he “cooperated in all that was requested”.
Mr Banerjee, nephew of West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee, had alleged that whereas TMC leaders who had been unwilling to bend had been being harassed, BJP leaders who had been concerned in numerous instances had been allowed to go scot-free.
The two-time TMC MP from Diamond Harbour was questioned by the Enforcement Directorate (ED) twice within the coal pilferage case within the company’s workplace within the nationwide capital in 2021 and likewise in Kolkata in 2022.
While the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) is probing the felony side of the rip-off, the ED is trying into the cash path concerned within the alleged irregularities at school recruitment. Abhishek Banerjee, who was on the marketing campaign path in Bankura in western Bengal, had rushed again to Kolkata Friday night time to reply the summons despatched by the central investigative company.
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