TMC leader Abhishek appears before CBI amidst heavy security deployment

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Earlier in the day, Enforcement Directorate conducted a raid at the residence of Sujay Krishna Bhadra, considered to be close to TMC top brass in connection with its probe into the school jobs scam, an official of the central agency said.IANSHINDIAbhishek.

TMC leader Abhishek Banerjee, appeared before the CBI at its Kolkata office on Saturday morning, where he had been called as part of the agency's probe into the school jobs scam..

Banerjee drove down to the CBI office at Nizam palace amidst heavy security deployment in the area at around 10.58 am and went to meet the officers designated to probe the case.. Earlier in the day, Enforcement Directorate conducted a raid at the residence of Sujay Krishna Bhadra, considered to be close to TMC top brass in connection with its probe into the school jobs scam, an official of the central agency said...

"You are hereby directed to appear before me on Saturday, at 11 am ...," a letter sent by a deputy superintendent of the CBI to Banerjee's Harish Mukherjee road address on Friday said.. Later on Friday, the TMC leader and nephew of chief minister Mamata Banerjee, had in an impromptu speech delivered from atop his vehicle had also dared the central agency to arrest him if it has any proof of corruption or misconduct against him..

Ghosh alleged that he was being pressured by central investigating agencies to name Abhishek Banerjee in the school scam case.. An attempt on Friday to get a division bench and after that the chief justice of Calcutta High Court to hear his revision plea did not yield results...

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