{"id":522443,"date":"2022-09-16T11:12:30","date_gmt":"2022-09-16T05:42:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=522443"},"modified":"2022-09-16T11:12:30","modified_gmt":"2022-09-16T05:42:30","slug":"kolkata-cid-calls-asansol-bjp-leader-jitendra-tiwari-in-coal-scam-probe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/kolkata-cid-calls-asansol-bjp-leader-jitendra-tiwari-in-coal-scam-probe\/","title":{"rendered":"Kolkata: CID calls Asansol BJP leader Jitendra Tiwari in coal scam probe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>KOLKATA: The CID has summoned Trinamool-turned-BJP leader Jitendra Tiwari to its headquarters in Kolkata on Friday in connection to the coal scam probe. Sources said the former Asansol mayor and Pandabeswar MLA has been called as a witness in a case registered in Andal, and told to report at Bhawani Bhawan by 11 am.<\/p>\n<p>Three other BJP leaders from Andal and Asansol (presently in charge of the west zone) have also been summoned as witnesses and their statements are likely to be recorded by early next week. One of them, agency sources said, has cited other engagements and sought more time to appear before sleuths.<\/p>\n<p>The summons to Tiwari sparked a war of words. BJP spokesperson Shamik Bhattacharya said the CID had summoned Tiwari out of &#8220;vengeance&#8221; because the Asansol politician had switched sides, while TMC MP Santanu Sen said the CID was an &#8220;impartial agency&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KOLKATA: The CID has summoned Trinamool-turned-BJP leader Jitendra Tiwari to its headquarters in Kolkata on Friday in connection to the coal scam probe. Sources said the former Asansol mayor and Pandabeswar MLA has been called as a witness in a case registered in Andal, and told to report at Bhawani Bhawan by 11 am. Three other BJP leaders from Andal and Asansol (presently in charge of the west zone) have also been summoned as witnesses and their statements are likely to be recorded by early next week. One of them, agency sources said, has cited other engagements and sought more [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[222,130,137],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-522443","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-coal-the-times-of-india","category-newspapers","category-the-times-of-india"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/522443","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=522443"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/522443\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=522443"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=522443"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=522443"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}