₹1.02 crore cash recovered from TMC MLA's office

In a raid conducted by the police in Diamond Harbour, South 24 Parganas district of West Bengal, cash amounting to more than ₹1.02 crore has been seized from a Trinamool Congress (TMC) office. This office is said to belong to rebel TMC MLA Shamim Ahmed.

According to Diamond Harbour Additional SP Abhishek Majumdar, this action was taken based on information received from Sumit Roy, an arrested associate of Abhishek Banerjee. Sumit Roy is currently in police custody in a financial irregularities case. The police have also shared a video of the seized notes.

Commenting on the incident, Shubhendu Adhikari stated that Mamata Banerjee and her nephew Abhishek Banerjee have usurped all the state's revenue. He further added that this amount is just a small part of a larger corruption and is equivalent to their daily earnings.

On the other hand, the TMC has refuted these allegations. The party claims that false evidence was deliberately planted in the office, which was under police surveillance.

Abhishek Banerjee faces three major allegations of corruption. These include the allegation of taking lakhs of rupees in commission from mafias selling illegal coal from West Bengal's mines, involvement in the School Service Commission (SSC) scam for providing jobs to unqualified individuals in government schools in exchange for money, and providing political protection to gangs involved in illegal cattle smuggling on the Bangladesh border in exchange for a share of black money. Additionally, the ED had interrogated Abhishek Banerjee regarding allegations of taking bribes in the cash-for-job scam, and the CID had interrogated him regarding a matter of forged signatures.

Abhishek Banerjee is the General Secretary of the TMC and had reached the ED office in Kolkata.