NEW DELHI: Trinamool CongressтАЩs national general secretary Abhishek Banerjee and his wife Rujira Banerjee moved Supreme Court on Monday, challenging the Enforcement DirectorateтАЩs (ED) summons in connection with a money laundering case linked to an alleged coal scam.
In September Banerjee was quizzed by the EC for more than 8 hours. The couple had sought direction from the Delhi High Court to the ED that they should not be summoned for appearance in Delhi. They asked SC to decide whether ED can assume pan-India jurisdiction to summon persons from anywhere to Delhi.
The Delhi High Court on March 11 dismissed the coupleтАЩs plea challenging the summons that asked them to appear before the ED.
The agencyтАЩs summons to Banerjee and the police summons to the three ED officers are linked to the multi-crore illegal coal-mining allegations that surfaced in 2020 after the government-owned Eastern Coalfields Limited (ECL) filed a complaint. The illegal coal-mining scam, which surfaced in poll-bound Bengal, is now being probed by CBI and ED.
Banerjee said he had received an e-mail from the ED, asking him to appear before it on Monday. According to the summons issued by the Kolkata Police, the ED officers are to report at the Kalighat police station by 12pm on Monday.
тАЬI will not bow down. I will not be cowed. We will not surrender, nor will we sell our spine. We will see this fight to the end, however long it takes,тАЭ Banerjee said, before taking a flight to Delhi. He added that he had eye surgery only four days back and had been advised bed rest, but he was still going.
In September Banerjee was quizzed by the EC for more than 8 hours. The couple had sought direction from the Delhi High Court to the ED that they should not be summoned for appearance in Delhi. They asked SC to decide whether ED can assume pan-India jurisdiction to summon persons from anywhere to Delhi.
The Delhi High Court on March 11 dismissed the coupleтАЩs plea challenging the summons that asked them to appear before the ED.
The agencyтАЩs summons to Banerjee and the police summons to the three ED officers are linked to the multi-crore illegal coal-mining allegations that surfaced in 2020 after the government-owned Eastern Coalfields Limited (ECL) filed a complaint. The illegal coal-mining scam, which surfaced in poll-bound Bengal, is now being probed by CBI and ED.
Banerjee said he had received an e-mail from the ED, asking him to appear before it on Monday. According to the summons issued by the Kolkata Police, the ED officers are to report at the Kalighat police station by 12pm on Monday.
тАЬI will not bow down. I will not be cowed. We will not surrender, nor will we sell our spine. We will see this fight to the end, however long it takes,тАЭ Banerjee said, before taking a flight to Delhi. He added that he had eye surgery only four days back and had been advised bed rest, but he was still going.
