Suvendu Adhikari shifted his loyalties from the Trinamool to the BJP only a few months ago.
West Bengal BJP leader Suvendu Adhikari, a former ally of Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee, was today summoned by the police over the death of a security staffer’s death in 2018. The person had died of a bullet wound.
Mr Adhikari has been asked to appear before the state criminal investigation department on Monday. The agency is probing if the security staffer died by suicide or someone else was involved.
The development comes days after Trinamool MP Abhishek Banerjee, Ms Banerjee’s nephew, was summoned to appear before the Enforcement Directorate on Monday, September 6, in an alleged money laundering case involving coal smuggling. The Diamond Harbour MP’s wife, Rujira Banerjee, too, was asked to appear before the agency in New Delhi on September 1.
Along with the Trinamool MP and his wife, two senior West Bengal police officials and state Law Minister Moloy Ghatak have also been called in for questioning in connection with the case.
