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The Trinamool Congress (TMC) moved the Calcutta High Court connected Wednesday (June 10, 2026), challenging the legality of the hunt cognition carried retired astatine the enactment bureau adjacent to erstwhile Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee’s residence successful Kolkata’s Kalighat country connected Tuesday (June 9, 2026). The hunt was executed successful transportation with the allegedly forged signatures of Trinamool MLAs.
The substance was mentioned earlier Justice Saugata Bhattacharyya by elder advocator Kishore Datta.
The petition was filed by elder MP Kalyan Banerjee connected behalf of the party, successful which Mr. Kalyan Banerjee alleged that the raids and hunt operations had been conducted successful the lack of the main witnesses successful the case, and that important enactment documents had been scanned astatine the 2 enactment offices (the 2nd being Ms. Mamata Banerjee’s nephew and enactment wide caput Abhishek Banerjee’s ain bureau astatine Camac Street) wherever the simultaneous raids and hunt operations were conducted.
The substance is scheduled to beryllium heard connected Thursday (June 11, 2026). The Criminal Investigation Department (CID) of the West Bengal Police searched the residence of former Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee successful Kolkata connected Tuesday (June 9, 2026) successful transportation with the alleged forging of the signatures of 2 Trinamool Congress MLAs.
Both Ms. Banerjee and her nephew and enactment wide caput Mr. Abhishek Banerjee were not contiguous successful the premises astatine the clip of the search, and therefore, erstwhile Trinamool MP Subhasish Chakraborty had said helium could not let the CID officials inside.
However, the CID officials said they had travel to hunt the TMC enactment bureau connected the premises, and not the residence of Ms. Banerjee, and accused Mr. Chakraborty of “obstructing the investigation”.
The CID is investigating a missive nominating Sovandeb Chattopadhyay arsenic the Leader of the Opposition successful the State Assembly, which was submitted to the Speaker connected May 20. Trinamool MLAs Ritabarta Banerjee and Sandipan Saha person alleged that their signatures connected the missive were forged. They were past expelled from the TMC.
A First Information Report was registered connected the ground of their ailment astatine Kolkata’s Hare Street constabulary station, and the lawsuit was aboriginal handed implicit to the CID. The State bureau past issued respective summons to Mr. Abhishek Banerjee, who had signed the letter. However, helium did not look successful person, citing wellness issues, and sought 15 days much to respond.
