Trinamool Congress MP Abhishek Banerjee has been summoned with the aid of using the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) the following day for thinking withinside the alleged instructors` recruitment rip-off hours after the Supreme Court gave him alleviation withinside the case. Mr Banerjee, the nephew of West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee, were given the CBI summons these days simply hours after the Supreme Court paused the research in opposition to him for alleged corruption in recruiting instructors.
“The CBI is making an attempt to bother us with the aid of using issuing summons for thinking notwithstanding the Supreme Court’s order,” Mr Banerjee stated.
“In its desperation to ‘harass’ and ‘goal’ me, BJP exposes CBI and ED to contempt of courtroom docket. The SC (Supreme Court) stayed the Calcutta HC (excessive courtroom docket) order withinside the morning that granted permission to the critical corporations to summon me. Yet, the ‘summon’ changed into hand-added these days at 1.forty five pm. Grave State of affairs,” Mr Banerjee tweeted, along side a replica of the summons.
The CBI branch, which issued the summons to Mr Banerjee, changed into now no longer aware about the courtroom docket order, reassets instructed NDTV, including the CBI respects the courtroom docket order.
The CBI summons to Mr Banerjee – that is primarily based totally on an order of the Calcutta High Court – is probably to feature to the acute friction among competition events and the BJP-led centre over alleged misuse of critical corporations to goal them.
Just yesterday, Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal changed into puzzled with the aid of using the CBI as a witness in a case of alleged corruption in framing a liquor policy.
Opposition leaders in a letter to Prime Minister Narendra Modi final month accused his authorities of intentionally sending critical corporations after them with fake cases.
Later, PM Modi at a CBI occasion instructed the corporation now no longer to spare everybody in combating corruption. “The united states is with you,” PM Modi had stated on the occasion in Delhi.
Before reviews of the CBI summons to her nephew got here these days, Ms Banerjee stated the centre has a tendency to ship the CBI and different corporations whenever the competition events speak approximately cohesion for the country wide election 2024.
They need to expose the Arvind Kejriwal rely as an instance that “look, that is what you get,” Ms Banerjee stated.
Former Bengal minister Partha Chatterjee changed into arrested in July final yr with the aid of using the Enforcement Directorate (ED) for his alleged involvement withinside the trainer recruitment rip-off. The ED is following the cash path withinside the case. Several officials of the schooling branch and a few neighborhood Trinamool leaders also are in custody in reference to the case.
The CBI research got here after a few applicants who stated they have been denied jobs notwithstanding qualifying for the Teachers’ Eligibility Test in 2014 sought alleviation. The Calcutta High Court had additionally mentioned irregularities in appointments of instructors with the aid of using the West Bengal Board of Primary Education.
