A court on Saturday issued a bailable warrant against Rujira Banerjee, the wife of Trinamool Congress leader Abhishek Banerjee, after she failed to join an Enforcement Directorate (ED) investigation despite summons issued by the central agency in a money laundering case related to an alleged coal scam in West Bengal.
Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Snigdha Sarvaria issued the warrant against Rujira, whose husband is the nephew of West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee.
A further hearing in the matter will take place on August 20.
Special public prosecutor Nitesh Rana represented the ED and submitted before the court that the accused did not appear before either the court or the probe agency despite the issuance of multiple summones.
