TMC Attacks HC Judge For Asking ED-CBI To Interrogate Abhishek Banerjee And Kuntal Ghosh Together | India News

The excessive courtroom’s Justice Abhijit Gangopadhyay dominated on Thursday that Abhishek Banerjee, the Trinamool Congress (TMC) nationwide basic secretary, and suspended TMC chief Kuntal Ghosh must be introduced collectively and questioned by the investigators trying into allegations of corruption at school recruitments (SSC Scam). The choose requests that the 2 be questioned a few fictitious letter that Ghosh allegedly wrote to the Hasting police station and Special (CBI) court-1. 

Ghosh is claimed to have talked about within the letter that investigators had been bodily torturing him to incriminate Banerjee within the case. Ghosh was arrested by the Enforcement Directorate (ED) in January for his suspected function within the college recruitment rip-off. Ghosh had written letters to the Special (CBI) Court-1 and the Hastings police station on Wednesday, the lawyer representing the ED revealed to Justice Gangopadhyay, accusing ED personnel of bullying him. The courtroom was introduced with Ghosh’s letter on Wednesday. 

After studying the letter, the choose instructed the police to not take any motion in opposition to an ED officer primarily based on the allegedly written letter till the matter was heard on Thursday. This was a part of an interim order. Before the courtroom’s registrar basic, the choose had retained the letter in a sealed cowl. 

Justice Gangopadhyay learn the letter as soon as extra on Thursday. Attorney Bikash Bhattacharyya, who’s representing the petitioners within the corruption case, claimed that the letter was drafted on another person’s initiative and that the accusations said in it had been unfaithful. Justice Gangopadhay’s foremost conclusion was that the letter Ghosh wrote was pre-planned, fabricated, and based on unfaithful accusations. The investigators seem to have thus far been capable of get to the crime’s waist and can quickly have the ability to get to its ear and head, the choose commented.

Justice Gangopadhyay additionally accepted Bhattacharyya’s argument and claimed that Ghosh had written the letter after Banerjee claimed, in a rally on March 29 on the Shaheed Minar grounds, that a few of the accused had been being tortured so as to implicate him within the college rip-off case. On April 20, the topic might be heard as soon as extra. The choose extended the non permanent injunction issued on Wednesday prohibiting the police from performing in opposition to any CBI or ED personnel because of the letter. 

On the opposite hand, Trinamool Congress spokesperson Kunal Ghosh advised reporters on Thursday that Justice Abhijit Gangopadhyay of the Calcutta High Court was abusing the authorized system and focusing on social gathering nationwide basic secretary Abhishek Banerjee. Furthermore, in keeping with Ghosh, the choose’s ‘political want listing’ was revealed by such observations. “Unfortunately, there is a segment of the Calcutta High Court that is becoming increasingly predictable and exposing their political wish list. They are impugning the judiciary itself”, in keeping with Ghosh. “Even if these were observations, Justice Abhijit Gangopadhyay’s words and statements today are entirely outside the bounds of the law and the court’s authority.”