Banerjee drove down to the CBI office at Nizam palace amidst heavy security deployment in the area at around 10.58 am and went to meet the officers designated to probe the case.
Before reaching CBI offices at Nizam Palace, Banerjee wrote a letter to the CBI informing it of his decision to move the Supreme Court challenging the High Court order which allows investigative agencies CBI and ED to question him.
Following a grueling nine-hour interrogation by the CBI in the West Bengal school recruitment scam, Abhishek Banerjee, the TMC national general secretary and nephew of West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee, dismissed the proceedings as a waste of time. He claimed that he was being targeted for refusing to be a subservient follower of the ruling BJP government in Delhi.
The Calcutta High Court today DISMISSED TMC leader and MP Abhishek Banerjee s plea to recall HC s order permitting CBI and ED to interrogate him in connection with the Teacher Recruitment Scam case..
The Court refused to grant interim protection to Banerjee and said that if there is any coercive action against him, he can approach the court any time.