Kolkata, May 21 (). Trinamool Congress National General Secretary Abhishek Banerjee was questioned by the CBI for 9 hours 20 minutes on Saturday in the school recruitment case in West Bengal. Following this, CBI officials are now planning to interrogate expelled party leader Kuntal Ghosh, who is also an accused in the case.
The Enforcement Directorate (ED) is continuously investigating the school recruitment case. ED officials had arrested Ghosh in this case in January this year. Ghosh is in judicial custody at the Presidency Central Correctional Home in Kolkata.
Sources said CBI officials probing the case would visit the reform home and question him there. The basis of questioning would be the same as noted by the central agency officials during their questioning of Banerjee on Saturday. However, Banerjee herself termed the results of the marathon probe as Big Zero.
Banerjee’s name surfaced in the case after Ghosh wrote to a local police station as well as a trial court judge alleging that central agencies were pressurizing him to name Banerjee in the school recruitment case .
Last Thursday, a single-judge bench of Justice Amrita Sinha of the Kolkata High Court gave the go-ahead to central agencies to interrogate Banerjee and Ghosh in the case. He also imposed a fine of Rs 25 lakh each on Banerjee and Ghosh.
Meanwhile, Banerjee filed a Special Leave Petition in the Supreme Court challenging the order of the Division Bench of Justice Sinha. The matter is likely to come up for hearing on Monday.
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