NIA Summons Three Trinamul Congress Leaders for Bhupatinagar Bomb Investigation

According to an official on Monday, the National Investigation Agency has summoned three leaders of the Trinamul Congress to appear before its officials for interrogation about the Bhupatinagar bomb investigation.

According to him, NIA officials have requested that the three leaders—Manab Kumar Karaya, Subir Maity, and Naba Kumar Ponda—appear before them on Monday.

"Three TMC leaders have been summoned to our city office for questioning on Monday morning," the police official told PTI.

When the three were called in for interrogation last week, they had declined to appear before NIA officials.

The NIA officer said that the two TMC leaders who were detained were "not cooperating" with our personnel.

When an NIA team attempted to apprehend two primary suspects in a Purba Medinipur district bomb case from 2022, it was reportedly ambushed by a crowd on Saturday. This set up a political spat in which Mamata Banerjee, the chief minister of West Bengal, accused the investigators of attacking the locals.

The Bhupatinagar incident resulted in damage to a vehicle and the injury of one of the NIA's personnel, according to the agency.

Three months before to the attack on the NIA team, on January 5, in connection with the purported ration fraud, a group of Enforcement Department (ED) police had been attacked by villagers and locals when they tried to search the home of TMC leader Shajahan Sheikh, who is now under arrest.