Last Update: 12 September 2022, 13:33 IST
Maneka Gambhir reached the ED office in Kolkata at 12.30 pm but was locked up. He and his lawyer summoned the office’s night guard who allowed them inside the premises. Sources said she waited for 20 minutes and then left. (Photo: News18)
Like last night, this afternoon Gambhir’s lawyer accompanied him to the ED office. ED is yet to interrogate Gambhir in the money laundering case. The CBI had earlier questioned him in the said case.
All’s sister-in-law Maneka Gambhir after midnight ‘goofy’ India Trinamool Congress general secretary Abhishek Banerjee arrived at the Enforcement Directorate (ED) office in Kolkata last night after being summoned in a money laundering case.
This is the second time Gambhir has come to the ED office. Yesterday in a notice the time was wrongly mentioned at 12.30 pm instead of 12.30 pm. Gambhir had reached the ED’s office in the Salt Lake area at 12.30 pm, but he said it was closed. He and his lawyer summoned the office’s night guard who allowed them inside the premises. Sources said she waited for 20 minutes and then left.
She arrived again today, 12 hours after the ED summoned her against him at the Kolkata airport on September 10, as he denied her travel to Bangkok (Thailand) due to the need to join the probe into the alleged coal scam was.
Like last night, this afternoon Gambhir’s lawyer accompanied him to the ED office. ED is yet to interrogate Gambhir in the money laundering case. The CBI had earlier questioned him in the said case.
The Calcutta High Court in August directed the ED to interrogate Gambhir at its regional office in Kolkata and not in Delhi and not take coercive steps against him till the next date of hearing. Gambhir had challenged the ED’s summons asking him to appear in Delhi on September 5 in the alleged coal scam case and sought the court’s direction to the agency to make him appear before it in Kolkata. where he claimed to have lived.
The ED had earlier questioned Mamata Banerjee’s nephew Abhishek Banerjee and his wife Rujira in the same case.
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