Bengal court orders probe against Abhishek in illegal land-grabbing case

Nadia district court in West Bengal has ordered a police probe against Trinamool Congress general secretary and the party’s Diamond Harbour Lok Sabha member, Abhishek Banerjee and 29 others in connection with a case of illegal land grabbing in Nadia and its adjacent Murshidabad district.

Among others named in the case are the Trinamool Congress legislator from Kaliganj Assembly constituency in the district; Alifa Ahmed, former Trinamool Congress legislator from



Beldanga Assembly constituency in Murshidabad district; Hasanuzzaman Sheikh and several other leaders from the state’s previous ruling party from both these districts.

Bapan Ghosh, a resident of Kaliganj, filed a case in the Krishnanagar District Sessions Court on July 15 alleging that since 2016 huge plots of government land had been illegally grabbed and sold both in Kaliganj block in Nadia district and Shaktipur village under Bendanga-2 block in Murshidabad district.