CBI summons TMC MP Abhishek Banerjee’s brother-in-law in illegal coal-mining case
The CBI has summoned the brother-in-law of TMC MP Abhishek Banerjee on March 15 in reference to an illegal coal-mining case, officers stated on Friday. Ankush Arora, the husband of Banerjee’s sister-in-law Menaka Gambhir, and his father Pawan Arora have been requested to seem earlier than the investigating officer in the case on March 15, they stated.
The central probe company just lately questioned Banerjee’s spouse Rujira and sister-in-law Menaka Gambhir in the case pertaining to illegal coal mining and pilferage from the mines of the Eastern Coalfields Limited.
West Bengal is ready to witness an eight-phase Assembly election beginning March 27 and the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) is main a vigorous marketing campaign in the state to oust the ruling Trinamool Congress (TMC), which had secured consecutive electoral wins in 2011 and 2016 underneath its chief Mamata Banerjee.
Abhishek Banerjee, the Lok Sabha MP from the Diamond Harbour constituency and the nephew of Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee, wields appreciable affect in the celebration and has been main the TMC’s counter-attack in the run-up to the Assembly polls.
