CID has raided the house of Trinamool Congress leader Abhishek Banerjee. The search took place at his house in Kalighat. TMC has called it an act of political vendetta and said that nothing was found in the investigation.
Kolkata: The Criminal Investigation Department (CID) team has searched the house of Trinamool Congress (TMC) National General Secretary Abhishek Banerjee. The search took place at his house in Kalighat, Kolkata. TMC has termed this action as political revenge. TMC leader and Rajya Sabha MP Sagarika Ghosh said that CID officers had arrived at 3 am on Saturday for investigation. He alleged that nothing was found in the search and it was just an act of political vendetta.
This matter is related to a fake signature case. In this connection, CID officials had also reached Abhishek Banerjee’s house on Friday. Earlier on Thursday, officers had interrogated Abhishek for more than 5 hours at the CID headquarters in Kolkata. Sagarika Ghosh said in a post on social media platform X that the CID team reached the Kalighat house at 3 in the morning. He claimed that the disaster management team was called at 5 am to break the lock. After this, the search started at 6:30 in the morning, which continued from the second floor to the roof. According to Sagarika, nothing was found in the search that lasted for about 90 minutes.
Sagarika alleged, “This is all an attempt to take political revenge, intimidate and mentally harass. Operation Lotus is targeting all those leaders who do not bow to BJP’s orders. This is a shameful attack on an opposition leader.” TMC MP Kirti Azad also reacted to the incident, calling it a part of BJP’s vendetta.