Mamata’s nephew Abhishek moves SC challenging CBI questioning in School jobs scam; plea to be heard on 26 May

TMC leader Abhishek Banerjee filed petition in SC against being questioned by the CBI in the school jobs scam case was accepted by the Supreme Court today. The Supreme Court will hear the case on 26 May.

Banerjee, who was interrogated by the CBI on 20 May for more than nine hours as part of the case investigation, has asked the Supreme Court to issue a directive prohibiting the agency from using coercion against him.

Senior advocate Abhishek Singhvi, appearing for Banerjee, mentioned the matter for urgent listing before a vacation bench of Justices Aniruddha Bose and Sanjay Karol.

Earlier TMC leader Abhishek Banerjee appeared before the CBI on Saturday (20 May) morning in Kolkata in relation with the CBI’s investigation into the school jobs scandal.

In spite of heightened safety in the area, Banerjee had driven to the CBI office at Nizam Palace to meet with the investigators.

Before Abhishek Banerjee, the leader of the Trinamool Congress, filed a petition with the Calcutta High Court on Thursday asking for the recall of an earlier ruling by the same court that allowed the CBI and ED to question him about the teacher recruitment fraud.

Justice Amrita Sinha, while dismissing the petition, imposed a penalty of Rs 25 lakh on him and also a similar amount on Kuntal Ghosh, an accused in the scam. Ghosh is now in CBI custody in connection with alleged irregularities in the recruitment in West Bengal government-sponsored and -aided schools.