The Enforcement Directorate (ED) was notified after she was stopped by immigration officials, and they arrived at the airport to speak with her and deny her permission to leave, according to them.
Digital Desk: The sister-in-law of TMC MP Abhishek Banerjee, Maneka Gambhir, was prevented from leaving the country on Saturday night by the ED at the airport in Kolkata, according to official sources. She was given the summons to participate in an inquiry into a case of money laundering.
Gambhir arrived at the airport to board a flight to Bangkok that would take off at about 9 o'clock.
According to the sources, Gambhir was denied immigration clearance on the basis of a federal investigation agency's Look Out Circular (LOC) that was issued against her on Sunday.
The Enforcement Directorate (ED) was notified after she was stopped by immigration officials, and they arrived at the airport to speak with her and deny her permission to leave, according to them.
The sources added that the ED authorities then gave her a summons asking her to appear before the agency on Monday, September 12, at 11 am at its office in Kolkata's Salt Lake neighbourhood for questioning in a money laundering case connected to an alleged West Bengal coal theft case.
She is said to have departed the airport for her home in Kolkata at around 10:30 PM on Saturday.
The ED has not yet questioned Gambhir about this matter. Her prior interrogation by the CBI in the aforementioned matter.
In August, the Calcutta High Court ordered the ED to examine Gambhir at its regional office in Kolkata rather than in Delhi and to hold off on using coercion until the next hearing date.
In connection with the alleged coal scam case, Gambhir had objected to an ED summons asking her to appear before it in Delhi on September 5. She requested the court to order the agency to allow her to appear before it in Kolkata, where she claimed to reside.
Abhishek Banerjee, the national general secretary of the Trinamool Congress (TMC) and the nephew of West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee, as well as his wife Rujira, have already been questioned by the ED on this issue.
Rujira was questioned by the ED in Kolkata after receiving a similar court order to Gambhir, but Abhishek Banerjee was questioned by the ED in both Delhi and Kolkata.
Anup Majee is suspected of being the ringleader of a money laundering case tied to coal mining theft at Eastern Coalfield Limited's mines in Kunustoria and Kajora in and around Asansol in West Bengal. This case is being probed by the ED under the Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA).
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