Key Takeaways
- The Enforcement Directorate (ED) summoned Abhishek Banerjee over a school‑jobs controversy.
- The alleged scam involved allocating government‑sponsored school positions to unqualified candidates for cash.
- A hearing is scheduled for November 9 at the CGO Complex in Salt Lake, Kolkata.
Kolkata: The Enforcement Directorate (ED) has summoned Trinamool Congress national General Secretary Abhishek Banerjee to appear before its investigative officials at the CGO Complex, Salt Lake.
The hearing is set for November 9 and relates to the alleged West Bengal school jobs scam, according to official sources on Wednesday.
Banerjee, the Diamond Harbour Lok Sabha member and nephew of Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee, had skipped the last summons on October 9 in the same case, which is being probed by the federal agency following an order from the Calcutta High Court.
ED is probing the money trail for the said scam, which provided qualified candidates in government-sponsored schools across the state and provided jobs to the alleged unqualified candidates against cash.
