CID At Mamata Banerjee’s Home With Search Warrant In Signature Scandal Probe

Kolkata: Mamata Banerjee, a three-time former chief minister, remains in deep political peril as the Crime Investigation Department, or CID, arrived at her home in connection with a signature forgery case. The 71-year-old leader is already battling a growing, and a very public, rift within the party.

The CID team is investigating the case of alleged use of fake signatures of party MLAs in a communication to the Assembly speaker, endorsing Sobhandeb Chattopadhyay’s selection as the Leader of Opposition (LoP).

The complaint was lodged after two Trinamool MLAs — Ritabrata Banerjee and Sandipan Saha — informed Speaker Rathindra Bose on May 27 that “no resolution was adopted about the selection of LoP” in the party’s May 6 meeting, as claimed in the party’s official communication to the Speaker, and that the duo had signed the meeting resolution book on a later date on May 19.

The two MLAs alleged that the so-called May 6 resolution was “manufactured and fabricated” and stated that as many as 14 of the 70 signatures were in “block letters”.