Drama At Abhishek Banerjee’s Home At Midnight

Kolkata: High drama unfolded at Trinamool Congress General Secretary Abhishek Banerjee’s Kolkata house in the dead of the intervening night of Friday and Saturday.

A team of Bengal Police barged into Abhishek Banerjee’s home at 2:30 am early on Saturday, sources have told NDTV. The midnight raid by the West Medinipur Police was apparently conducted to nab Abhishek Banerjee’s personal secretary Sumit Roy, sources added. Roy has been booked in an alleged extortion case.

NDTV has learnt that the police reached Abhishek Banerjee’s house at 2:30 am and demanded to conduct searches. The police team was stopped by Banerjee’s security, who was inside the house. After a confrontation with the security team, the police barged into the TMC MP’s house and conducted searches.

As the news reached Trinamool supremo Mamata Banerjee, she landed at her nephew’s house immediately and confronted the police team, according to the sources.

After a high decibel drama for a while, the police team left Abhishek Banerjee’s house and soon the former chief minister also left for her house. Heavy Police and Central Forces presence was also seen the MP’s house on Saturday morning. Refusing to comment on the late night searches, Abhishek Banerjee told reporters to “go ask the investigating agencies”. Sources in the Trinamool Congess denied allegations against Banerjee’s aide and called the action “political vendetta”.