New Delhi:
Trinamool Congress MP Abhishek Banerjee has been summoned by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) tomorrow for questioning in a multi-crore cattle smuggling case. Mr Banerjee, the nephew of West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee, got the CBI summons today just hours after the Supreme Court paused an investigation against him for alleged corruption in recruiting teachers.
Trinamool leader Anubrata Mondal, who is considered close to the Chief Minister, was arrested in July last year in the same case.
The CBI summons to Mr Banerjee is likely to add to the intense friction between opposition parties and the BJP-led centre over alleged misuse of central agencies to target them.
Just yesterday, Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal was questioned by 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 last month accused his government of deliberately sending central agencies after them with false cases.
Later, PM Modi at a CBI event told the agency not to spare anyone in fighting corruption. “The country is with you,” PM Modi had said at the event in Delhi.
