School jobs rip-off: Trinamool Congress leader Abhishek Banerjee moved Supreme Court against his questioning by the CBI within the college jobs rip-off case. The apex court docket on Monday agreed to listen to the plea on May 26. Banerjee has sought the apex court docket’s path that no coercive steps be taken against him by the company.
Earlier on May 20, the TMC leader was grilled for over 9 hours by the CBI in an alleged reference to the varsity jobs rip-off.
Plea to be heard on May 26
Senior advocate Abhishek Singhvi, showing for 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.
Banerjee’s title cropped up in a grievance filed by Kuntal Ghosh, a neighborhood businessman and an accused within the college jobs rip-off, the place he alleged that central investigating companies had been pressuring him to call Abhishek Banerjee within the case.
While mentioning the matter earlier than the apex court docket, Singhvi mentioned Banerjee has already been quizzed for over 9 hours by the CBI and the TMC leader is apprehending that he could also be arrested if known as against for questioning by the company. “I (Banerjee) am asking for no coercive step,” Singhvi informed the bench, whereas requesting it to listing 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.
‘Questioning was a waste of time’
After his questioning was over on May 20, Banerjee had informed the mediapersons maintaining vigil exterior 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 asked”. “I was questioned for 9 and-a-half hours by CBI …Questioning was a waste of time for them (CBI officers) as well as for me,” mentioned Banerjee after rising from Nizam Palace.
Banerjee, the nephew of West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee, claimed the true cause why he was known as in was as a result of he had refused to be a “pet dog of Delhi’s bosses” and that’s the reason he has been “targeted”. He additionally alleged that whereas TMC leaders who had been unwilling to bend had been being harassed, BJP leaders who had been concerned in numerous circumstances 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 in addition in Kolkata in 2022.
While the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) is probing the prison side of the rip-off, the ED is wanting into the cash path concerned within the alleged irregularities in class recruitment.
(With PTI inputs)
