BJP’s Suvendu Adhikari Summoned By Bengal Cops In 2018 Case

West Bengal BJP chief Suvendu Adhikari, a former ally of Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee, was at this time summoned by the state police in reference to the dying of a safety staffer in 2018. The individual had died of a bullet wound.

Mr Adhikari has been requested to look earlier than the state felony investigation division on Monday. The company is probing if the official died by suicide or another person was concerned.

The event comes days after Trinamool MP Abhishek Banerjee, Ms Banerjee’s nephew, was summoned to look earlier than the Enforcement Directorate on Monday, September 6, in an alleged cash laundering case involving coal smuggling. The Diamond Harbour MP’s spouse, Rujira Banerjee, too, was requested to look earlier than the company in New Delhi on September 1.

Together with the Trinamool MP and his spouse, two senior West Bengal police officers and state Legislation Minister, Moloy Ghatak, have additionally been known as in for questioning in reference to the case.

Suvendu Adhikari, the state Chief of the Opposition in West Bengal, was Chief Minister Banerjee’s Transport Minister until November 2020 when he give up his submit and joined the BJP. The 50-year-old has changed into a bitter foe of hers since then, happening to defeat her from the Nandigram constituency within the state Meeting polls held a couple of months in the past. The Trinamool chief has, nonetheless, challenged the election ends in court docket.

He’s stated to have been the important thing power behind the anti-land acquisition motion in Nandigram within the late 2000s, which put Ms Banerjee on the centrestage of West Bengal politics.

In 2014, Mr Adhikari was interrogated by the CBI for his alleged function within the Saradha Group monetary scandal. One video, recorded secretly, confirmed him allegedly accepting wads of cash, which was stated to be a bribe.