Bengal police tried to intimidate Customs over checking bags of Mamata’s kin: Centre to SC

The Centre told the Supreme Court on Friday that West Bengal police had attempted to intimidate Customs officials who wanted to check the luggage of “the wife of a sitting MP” at the Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose International Airport in Kolkata on March 16.
Solicitor General Tushar Mehta raised this while appearing for the CBI in the chit fund scam cases but did not name the MP. It emerged from the complaint lodged by the Customs department with the local police that the reference was to Trinamool Congress MP and Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee’s nephew Abhishek Banerjee.
The complaint lodged by the Assistant Commissioner of Customs, Air Intelligence Unit of the airport, said the woman in question and her co-passenger were found to possess Thai passports.

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