The case relates to a 2013 FIR registered after a group of SFI activists allegedly gheraoed and heckled her on Parliament Street in Delhi (file picture)
Because she was on the complainant’s side, a senior police officer said she had been called as a witness. Several SFI activists were arrested following the incident, including Ritabrata Banerjee, then the organisation’s general secretary. Ritabarata has since led a rebellion within the Trinamool Congress, splitting the party. It allows her to meet the investigating officer at her office, residence or any other place of her choice.
New Delhi/Kolkata: Delhi Police has asked former Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee to join an investigation into a 13-year-old case of alleged assault on public servants, as a witness. The notice, issued under Section 160 of the CrPC, says Mamata may be acquainted with the facts and circumstances of the case and has therefore been asked to cooperate with the investigation. On their arrival, a group of SFI activists protesting the custodial death of an SFI functionary in Kolkata gheraoed the delegation. In the ensuing melee, Mitra was manhandled, while Mamata fell ill and had to be administered oxygen.
A team of Delhi Police personnel, accompanied by officers from Kalighat police station, served her the notice on Monday.