Kolkata, November 9, 2026 (Yes Punjab News)
The Delhi Police has served a notice on former West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee, asking her to appear before investigating officers as a witness in a criminal case registered in 2013 over an alleged assault on government officials during a protest outside Banga Bhavan in New Delhi.
A Delhi Police team, accompanied by personnel from Kolkata’s Kalighat Police Station, visited Banerjee’s official residence at 30B Harish Chatterjee Street in south Kolkata on Monday to deliver the notice. The document was received on her behalf by Subhasish Chakraborty.
According to sources familiar with the development, the notice has asked Banerjee to travel to New Delhi at her convenience to meet the investigating officers. It was issued under Section 160 of the Code of Criminal Procedure (CrPC), which provides for police to require the attendance of persons acquainted with the facts and circumstances of a case.
The case relates to a protest staged by activists of the Students’ Federation of India (SFI), the student wing of the CPI(M), outside Banga Bhavan in April 2013. The demonstration followed the death of SFI activist Sudipta Gupta in Kolkata earlier that year.
During the protest, the then West Bengal Finance Minister Amit Mitra was allegedly heckled and physically assaulted by demonstrators. The agitation was led by then SFI General Secretary Ritabrata Banerjee, who is currently the Leader of the Opposition in the West Bengal Assembly.
A formal complaint was lodged at Delhi’s Parliament Street Police Station on April 9, 2013. Banerjee was in the national capital with Mitra when the incident took place, and investigators are seeking her account as part of the inquiry.
The notice comes nearly 13 years after the incident and seeks her participation in the investigation as a witness.
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