Calcutta HC to hear Abhishek plea challenging CID summons today

The Calcutta High Court on Wednesday will hear the petition by Trinamool Congress’s General Secretary Abhishek Banerjee challenging the Criminal Investigation Department (CID) summons to him in the legislators’ signature mismatch case.

Last week, Banerjee, also the nephew of the party chief and former West Bengal Chief Minister, Mamata Banerjee, approached the single-judge vacation bench of Justice Chaitali Chatterjee Das, challenging the CID summons and seeking protection from coercive police action,



including arrest, in the matter.

He also pleaded for a fast-track hearing in the matter. However, the vacation bench rejected the plea and fixed June 10 as the date of the first hearing in the matter. 

The hearing on Wednesday came amid the simultaneous raids and search operations on Tuesday at a Trinamool party office adjacent to the residence of Mamata Banerjee at Kalighat in south Kolkata and at another office at Camac Street in central Kolkata, where Abhishek Banerjee used to work from.