'Illegal' notice pasted on Abhishek's properties

KOLKATA: The civic authorities connected Monday initiated a probe into the properties owned by Abhishek Banerjee and immoderate of his associates, with officials going to respective of the TMC nationalist wide secretary's properties, including 'Shantiniketan' successful the city, and pasting notices nether Section 401 of the Kolkata Municipal Corporation Act, 1980.The announcement is KMC's archetypal measurement erstwhile it starts a probe into alleged irregularities successful a property. "We person pasted the notices connected respective properties owned by assorted individuals, including Abhishek Banerjee," said an official.A KMC buildings section squad reached Harish Mukherjee Road and knocked connected the doors of 'Shantiniketan' successful the afternoon. After failing to get immoderate effect from the Diamond Harbour MP, the officials pasted a announcement nether Section 401.

Such a announcement is issued erstwhile astatine slightest a portion of a gathering is constructed without the civic body's support and paves the mode for demolition. "We volition spell strictly by the rules," said a KMC official.

The announcement connected 'Shantiniketan' was recovered torn aboriginal successful the day. The civic appraisal section has identified 42 properties that are either owned oregon co-owned by Banerjee. "We person been asked to cheque records of each spot owned by Banerjee and his associates and cod unpaid spot taxes," said an official.

In the evening, CM Suvendu Adhikari said properties owned by Banerjee and 3 others were nether the scanner. "Abhishek Banerjee has 14 properties successful the sanction of Leaps and Bounds, 4 successful his sanction and six successful the sanction of his father. Raju Naskar successful Beleghata has 18 properties, Sona Pappu has 24, and (MLA) Javed Khan's lad has 90 properties," Adhikari said.Trinamool seniors said KMC's determination had upset the Banerjee family, which had decided to combat it legally. "This is not politics, but vendetta politics," said a enactment insider.