KOLKATA: Central investigative agencies have unleashed their most severe legal offensive yet against Trinamool Congress (TMC) National General Secretary Abhishek Banerjee, who happens to be the nephew of Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee. Following an grueling 31-hour marathon interrogation spread across four consecutive days, central investigators officially registered two fresh First Information Reports (FIRs) against the high-profile politician. This severe legal escalation stems from a massive ₹550-crore corruption scandal involving systemic money laundering and the illicit transfer of benami assets, sending shockwaves through political circles from Kolkata to New Delhi.
According to authoritative agency sources, Abhishek Banerjee repeatedly failed to provide legitimate explanations for suspicious financial transactions and funds routed overseas via webbed shell companies during the intense questioning sessions. Backed by solid evidentiary inputs from state witnesses and seized digital records, investigators established that approximately ₹550 crore of illicit wealth was systematically laundered under the guise of electoral funding. This concrete evidence formed the basis for registering the new criminal cases under the Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA), leaving the top TMC leader facing the immediate threat of arrest.
This uncompromising and transparent institutional action delivers a decisive response to leftist toolkits and defensive regional politicians who habitually label anti-corruption probes as ‘political vendetta’ to play the victim card. Guided by the Modi government’s strict ‘Nation First’ commitment and a hardline policy of ‘Zero Tolerance’ toward institutional graft, this move signals that no individual, regardless of their powerful political pedigree, stands above the rule of law. Coming immediately after the mass rebellion of 20 TMC MPs, this fresh legal strike has completely neutralized the remaining political bench strength of the ruling camp in Bengal.
