KOLKATA: The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI), on Thursday, summoned two heavyweight Trinamool Congress leaders for questioning in reference to the multi-crore cash-for-school job case in West Bengal.
Each have been requested to be current at CBI’s Nizam Palace in central Kolkata by Thursday afternoon solely.
One of many two leaders, who has been summoned, is Debraj Chakraborty, the Member-Mayor-in-Council (MMIC) of Bidhannagar Municipal Company (BMC). He’s additionally the husband of well-liked devotional singer and Trinamool Congress legislator from Rajarhat-Gopalpur meeting constituency, Aditi Munshi
The second individual is the Trinamool Congress councilor from ward quantity 101 of the Kolkata Municipal Company (KMC), Bappaditya Dasgupta.
He’s recognized to be an erstwhile and intensely shut confidant of former West Bengal schooling minister and Trinamool Congress secretary common Partha Chatterjee, who’s at the moment in judicial custody for his alleged involvement within the faculty job case.
In November final 12 months, CBI groups raided the residences of each Dasgupta and Chakraborty on this connection. CBI had additionally named each of them within the progress report of investigation furnished at Calcutta Excessive Courtroom’s single-judge bench of Justice Amrita Sinha.
Through the earlier raid and search operations at their residences, the CBI sleuths recovered a number of essential paperwork associated to the varsity job case from each the locations. Sources within the knowhow of issues stated that the contemporary discover for interrogation of Dasgupta and Chakraborty relies on the findings from the examination of the paperwork seized from their residences.