Rujira Banerjee, wife of West Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee’s nephew Abhishek Banerjee, was allegedly caught with 2 kg unaccounted-for gold on March 16 at Kolkata airport
Kolkata: Rujira Banerjee, the wife of Mamata Banerjee's nephew Abhishek Banerjee, has been asked by the Kolkata high court to appear before the Customs authorities on April 8.
The court on Thursday, however, ordered that the Customs could not take any coercive step against her.
MyNation was the first to break the story that Rujira was allegedly caught with 2kg gold at the Kolkata airport on March 15 by the Customs authority. Allegedly she had also threatened the officials with “dire consequences” if they did not let her go unchecked.
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The Customs department had later lodged a police complaint against her and Trinamool MP Abhishek as well as the local police, who they alleged, had pressurised the Customs officials to let Rujira go.
Even the Supreme Court had recently asked the Solicitor General Tushar Mehta to file a separate application in the matter while he was arguing in the Saradha chit fund scam case.
On April 3, the Union home ministry had asked Rujira to respond in 15 days to a notice for making false representation to the government of India.
The MHA notice alleged Rujira (earlier Rujira Naroola) had applied for PAN card by filing Form 49A without intimating her real status as a Thai national holding OCI card.
According to the MHA notice, she is a Thai national. The notice claims, on November 14, 2009, while applying for her PAN card, she had concealed her real status.
The notice read, “She was actually required to fill Form 49AA to get a PAN by declaring herself as a foreigner holding an OCI card but she has obtained the PAN card bearing No. AJNPN2**** under the name Ms Rujira Naroola in the capacity of an Indian citizen.”
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