Daijiworld Media Network - Kolkata
Kolkata, Oct 11: Kolkata Police on Sunday served a fresh notice to Trinamool Congress general secretary and Diamond Harbour Lok Sabha MP Abhishek Banerjee, asking him to appear for interrogation on Monday in connection with the August 27 scuffle involving party workers, police personnel and Kolkata Municipal Corporation (KMC) staff at his Camac Street office in central Kolkata.
The KMC staff, accompanied by police personnel, had visited the office to remove an allegedly illegal billboard.
The fresh notice directs Abhishek Banerjee, nephew of former West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee, to appear for questioning at Shakespeare Sarani Police Station on Monday. The police station has jurisdiction over the Camac Street office.
On Sunday afternoon, a team from Shakespeare Sarani Police Station visited the Diamond Harbour MP's residence in Kalighat, South Kolkata, and served the notice.
Earlier, on October 8, police personnel had visited the same residence to serve a notice for interrogation. However, they could not serve it as Banerjee was in New Delhi at the time.
The fresh notice is understood to have been issued following an FIR registered on the basis of a complaint filed by the KMC against several Trinamool Congress leaders, including Abhishek Banerjee.
The MP has already been questioned once in the case for over six hours at Shakespeare Sarani Police Station.
Tension erupted on August 27 when KMC personnel, accompanied by police, arrived at Banerjee's Camac Street office to remove the billboard. The civic officials and police personnel allegedly faced resistance from Trinamool Congress workers led by Abhishek Banerjee and other party leaders, resulting in scuffles at the spot.
According to the three FIRs registered at Shakespeare Sarani Police Station, police have accused Trinamool Congress activists of assaulting on-duty personnel and attempting to outrage the modesty of a woman police officer.
Abhishek Banerjee, party leader and Rajya Sabha member Derek O'Brien, and other Trinamool leaders, including Humayun Kabir and Baishwanar Chatterjee, were named in two of the three FIRs.
Police have arrested 14 people in connection with the incident so far.