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    TMC leader Abhishek Banerjee's wife appears before ED in coal pilferage case

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    Rujira Banerjee, wife of Abhishek Banerjee, a senior TMC leader, has arrived at the ED office will be interrogated by three officers in the coal pilferage case. She was stopped with her children for questioning and was summoned to appear before the agency on June 8. Abhishek Banerjee accused the government of harassing his family to obstruct his outreach campaign for the panchayat elections.

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    KOLKATA: Senior TMC leader Abhishek Banerjee's wife Rujira has appeared before the Enforcement Directorate (ED) today for questioning in the coal pilferage case, officials said. Three ED officers are likely to question her at the agency's office at CGO Complex in Salt Lake, they said.

    The officers arrived here from New Delhi for questioning her, they added.

    Rujira was stopped along with her two children at the Kolkata airport on Monday when she was heading to UAE. She was then served the summons for appearing before the agency at 11 am on June 8.

    Abhishek, the nephew of Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee, alleged the "harassment" of his family was aimed at stopping his outreach campaign ahead of the panchayat elections in West Bengal.

    Tight security arrangements were made around the CGO Complex to prevent any untoward incident, a senior police officer said.

    Last year, the ED questioned Rujira Banerjee in connection with the investigation into the Coal pilferage scam. The CBI also questioned her in 2021 in connection with the investigation in the same case.

    The CBI is probing the scam over illegally mined coal from the abandoned mines of Eastern Coalfields, estimated to be worth thousands of crores of rupees, officials said.

    The crime proceeds have been transacted through the hawala route, which the ED is probing, they said.
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