Rujira Banerjee, wife of Abhishek Banerjee has been stopped from boarding a flight to Dubai at the Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose International Airport in Kolkata.
Rujira, the national general secretary of the Trinamool Congress and a member of the party in the Lok Sabha, was held at the airport in connection with the fraud involving the smuggling of coal from Bengal.
The Enforcement Directorate (ED) has also summoned Rujira, who has been questioned after two days.
Earlier, in connection with the multi-crore recruitment scam case in state-run schools of West Bengal, the Supreme Court on May 26 refused to stay the Calcutta High Court's direction allowing the Enforcement Directorate and Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) to probe Trinamool Congress leader Abhishek Banerjee.
Rujira arrived at the air terminal at around 7am for the flight and got her ticket. She was halted before long.
In September last year, Rujira's sister Maneka Gambhir was likewise halted at Kolkata air terminal by immigration officials over an ED alert and handed over summons to show up for addressing in the coal smuggling case.
ED authorities on Monday didn't affirm in the event that the lookout circular against Rujira Banerjee was likewise given in a similar case.
Lok Sabha MP Abhishek Banerjee, spouse Rujira and her sister Gambhir have been addressed by ED and CBI regarding this case before.
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(Reported by Sujit Das)
