Guv speaking half-truths, was never acquitted: TMC ups attack

KOLKATA: The Trinamool Congress (TMC) on Tuesday accused Bengal governor Jagdeep Dhankhar of speaking "half-truths," following the latter's statement on Monday that he was "never charge-sheeted in a hawala case" in the 1990s.
Dhankhar was "never acquitted", TMC seniors said at a press conference on Tuesday, adding that the trial had not been completed in the last three decades.
TMC Rajya Sabha MP Sukhendu Sekhar Ray cited a Facebook post by Vineet Narain, who had moved the Supreme Court on the issue, and said: "The CBI and the ED lodged cases but, in the maze of legalities, the trial never started. So, there is no question of any acquittal either. The case, which involved several other senior politicians, had a direct bearing on the nation's security."
Dhankhar did not directly respond to this charge on Tuesday but took to Twitter to question TMC's rebuttal of his demand for a CAG audit into the accounts of the Gorkhaland Territorial Administration. The BJP defended the governor against TMC's "bogus and nasty allegations".