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NEW DELHI: Trinamool Congress nationalist wide caput Abhishek Banerjee connected Saturday declared that helium would not beryllium intimidated by investigative agencies aft being summoned by the West Bengal CID successful transportation with cases registered against him.Reacting to the summons and the FIRs filed against him, Banerjee struck a defiant tone, saying, "Even if you slit my throat, you volition person to instrumentality 7 births to marque maine cower down."The West Bengal CID issued a announcement directing Banerjee to look earlier investigators astatine Bhabani Bhawan, the agency's office successful Kolkata, astatine 12 noon connected June 1.Banerjee accused authorities of deploying aggregate agencies to people him and said nary magnitude of unit would unit him to backmost down."Let them bash immoderate they want. They tin bash immoderate they want. Understand it this way, earlier it was conscionable ED, CBI and present it is Bengal Police and Kolkata Police too, on with KMC (Kolkata Municipal Corporation)," Banerjee said."There were 2-3 probe agencies earlier and present it is 5. They deliberation they volition nonstop 5-6 agencies aft maine and blackmail maine into cowering down. I americium not a idiosyncratic similar that. Even if you slit my pharynx oregon bash thing you want, you volition person to deliberation 10 times and instrumentality 7 births to marque maine cower down.
I americium not a traitor," helium added.
The summons comes amid a bid of ineligible challenges faced by the TMC person successful caller weeks.Earlier connected Monday, a squad of Kolkata Police unit visited Banerjee's authoritative residence, 'Shantiniketan', located connected Harish Mukherjee Road successful southbound Kolkata. Several officers, some successful azygous and plain clothes, were seen astatine the premises.Neither Kolkata Police nor the Trinamool Congress officially disclosed the intent of the visit. However, a elder constabulary serviceman described it arsenic a "routine authoritative exercise". "There is nary law-and-order contented oregon immoderate peculiar operation. It was portion of a regular authoritative exercise," the serviceman said.Also read: From Z-plus information to stripped surveillance: Why cops landed astatine Abhishek Banerjee’s residence
