A CBI team visited the residence of Trinamool Congress MP Abhishek Banerjee on Tuesday to question his wife, Rujira, in the coal pilferage case, officials said.
Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee visited the residence of Abhishek, who is her nephew, in south Kolkata's Harish Mukherjee Road minutes before the CBI team arrived there.
The CBI's visit to Abhishek's residence comes after Rujira told the Central agency that she will be available for examination between 11am and 3pm on February 23, replying to a notice that the sleuths had hand-delivered her on Sunday.
The agency sought the examination of Rujira Banerjee to ascertain the details of her bank transactions, suspecting a connection to the proceeds of the illegal coal excavation money, sources said.
On Monday, the CBI examined Rujira's sister, Menaka Gambhir, in connection with the same case.
Two woman officers of the CBI visited Gambhir's residence off EM Bypass and had examined her for nearly three hours. The developments come months ahead of the Assembly elections in the state, with Trinamool Congress alleging it to be apolitical vendetta.
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The CBI on November 28 last year carried out a massive search operation in a number of locations across four states—West Bengal, Bihar, Jharkhand and Uttar Pradesh—after registering a case against one Anup Majhi alias Lala.
It is alleged that Lala, the alleged kingpin of the scam, is involved in illegal mining and theft of coal from leasehold mines of ECL in Kunustoria and Kajora areas, sources said.
