Guwahati 7 August : Guwahati, Aug 7 : West Bengal CID, which had sent an investigation team to Assam last week and summoned a Guwahati based businessman to Kolkata on Monday in connection with the investigation into the Jharkhand MLA cash seizure case according to an Assam Police official said.The Assam Police official said that the West Bengal CID, a team of that travelled to various locations in Guwahati this week, has posted the summons notice on the premises of Ashok Dhanuka’s home here.
According to reports in the media, Dhanuka and his son Ghanshyam Dhanuka are believed to be close to a prominent political family of the ruling BJP in Assam.
According to the official report, according to the official, Bengal CID team has asked Ashok Dhanuka to show up in Bengal CID headquarters Bhavani Bhavan at 10 a.m.on Monday.
A source said that the CID team in Guwahati went to Dhanuka’s residence on the weekend to deliver notice, but did not get to meet the businessman because the home was protected by Assam Police.
The Bengal CID team came to Guwahati to gather CCTV footage as well as other evidence related to the arrest of three Congress MLAs from Jharkhand.
They gathered CCTV footage of the Gopinath Bordoloi International airport in Guwahati as well as a hotel.
On the evening of July 30 three Congress MLAs of Jharkhand -Irfan Ansari, Rajesh Kacchap and Naman Bix Irfan Ansari, Rajesh Kacchap and Naman Bixal Kongari were detained by the police in Howrah’s Panchla, with huge amount of cash in their car.
The MLAs had told them that the money was to be used to purchase sarees at the wholesale market in Burrabazar in central Kolkata to distribute in their respective constituencies to mark the occasion of the World Tribal Day.The MLAs as well as two of their associates, who were arrested with them together with the driver are being held in CID custody until the 10th of August.
The Congress suspended three MLAs, accusing them of conspiracy to overthrow the state’s government.the controversy shook the politics in Bengal, Assam, and Jharkhand.
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