Through PTI
KOLKATA: The Enforcement Directorate (ED) on Thursday interrogated Trinamool Congress MP Abhishek Banerjee’s spouse Rujira Narula Banerjee at its Kolkata place of job for over six hours in reference to its probe into the coal pilferage rip-off, an officer stated.
The officer stated that Rujira went to the ED place of job on the CGO complicated at round 11 am sporting her two-and-a-half-year-old son in her fingers. 4 officials, together with two girls, wondered her.
“We now have wondered her about a couple of transactions made in a checking account in Bangkok. Her solutions are being tallied with the ones given through individuals who had been interrogated previous in the similar case. Rujira is also known as once more in a couple of days for some other spherical of wondering,” he stated when contacted.
All over all the grilling consultation, Banerjee’s son remained on her lap, the officer stated. “The kid was once crying each time her mom was once placing him down from her lap,” he added. The Ideally suited Court docket has allowed ED to quiz Banerjee and his spouse within the coal smuggling case in Kolkata through giving them an advance 24 hour realize.
The ED had expressed apprehensions on the apex courtroom mentioning previous circumstances of violence towards CBI officials, who had been gheraoed within the town after 3 heavyweight TMC leaders had been summoned through them in reference to some other rip-off at its place of job.
It had mailed to the state police searching for coverage. Following it an enormous police association was once made on the ED place of job right here, a senior authentic of the drive stated. The investigation is related to an FIR filed through CBI in 2020 in a multi-crore rupees pilferage rip-off.
The CBI has thus far wondered Rujira two times in reference to the rip-off. The central company had final yr additionally interrogated Rujira’s sister Menoka Gambhir, her husband and better half’s father in reference to the probe.
It’s alleged that unlawful mining of coal was once performed at leasehold mines of Japanese Coalfields’ in Kunustoria and Kajora spaces close to Asansol in West Bengal. Investigations have hinted in opposition to monetary transactions of Rs 1,300 crore, the majority of which went to a number of influential other folks as consistent with CBI.
The probe printed that the cash was once deposited in international financial institution accounts of those influential other folks thru hawala.