Kolkata, September 19, 2026 (Yes Punjab News)
The Criminal Investigation Department (CID) of the West Bengal Police on Saturday told a district court in West Midnapore that Sumit Roy, personal assistant to Trinamool Congress general secretary and Diamond Harbour Lok Sabha MP Abhishek Banerjee, had deposited around Rs 7 crore into a party account.
Sumit, along with former Trinamool Congress legislator Sujoy Hazra and others, was earlier arrested in connection with an alleged illegal land-grabbing case in Salboni, West Midnapore. The case involves allegations of creating and selling government-vested land using forged documents.
Produced before the court on Saturday, Sumit reportedly told investigators that, on the instructions of Abhishek Banerjee, a person identified as T. Ghosh, described as the MP’s treasurer, gave him the money to deposit in the Trinamool party fund.
According to documents submitted by the CID, Sumit denied receiving money from the alleged land scam but admitted that he had visited Salboni several times on party instructions.
In a chargesheet filed earlier this month against Sujoy Hazra, CID officers stated that Sumit deposited around Rs 7 crore into a specific account at a public sector commercial bank in Kolkata between 2018 and 2021. The account was registered in the name of the West Bengal Trinamool Youth Congress.
CID officials said they wanted to record the statement of T. Ghosh to establish how and under whose instructions the money was deposited into the party account.
“When Sumit deposited the money in the party’s account instead of his own, it cannot be his own decision. That is why we want to record the statement of T. Ghosh,” CID sources said.
Public prosecutor Syed Nazim Habib said further interrogation of Sumit, Hazra and others was required as the investigation progressed.
“We applied for seven days of CID custody. Sumit’s counsel initially applied for bail but later withdrew it. The court ordered five days of CID custody for the arrested persons,” Habib told reporters.
The allegations are part of the ongoing investigation and have not been established by a court.
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