The Enforcement Directorate (ED) has issued a fresh summons to Trinamool Congress MP Abhishek Banerjee, asking him to appear before it for questioning on March 29 in a money-laundering case linked to a coal scam of West Bengal.
The TMC national general secretary and nephew of West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee was questioned by the agency for about eight hours on Monday. This was the second time he was questioned by the ED in the case. He was first grilled in September last year and his role and links with other accused in the case are being investigated.
The last ED summons against Banerjee and his wife Rujira was issued after the Delhi High Court, on March 11, dismissed a plea moved by the couple, challenging the notices asking them to appear before the agency in Delhi instead of Kolkata. The ED lodged the money laundering case on the basis of a November 2020 FIR.