The Kolkata Police has summoned Trinamool Congress leaders Abhishek Banerjee and Derek O’Brien in connection with a case involving allegations that they assaulted police personnel and obstructed them from discharging their duties when a team went to remove a signboard of the party from a building on Camac Street, The Indian Express reported on Sunday.Banerjee and O’Brien have been asked to appear at the Shakespeare Sarani police station on Monday.Three first information reports have been registered in connection with Thursday’s incident under provisions of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita relating to unlawful assembly, obstructing and assaulting public servants, causing hurt, criminal intimidation and use of force against a woman, among others.The incident took place when police personnel and officials of the Kolkata Municipal Corporation arrived at the Trinamool Congress office on Camac Street to remove a signboard bearing the party’s name, “All India Trinamool Congress”, installed on the top of the building. Most of the units in the building are occupied by offices associated with Banerjee.In one of the FIRs, the police have alleged that the signboard was hanging dangerously and stated that the municipal corporation had been directed to remove it for safety. A team of police personnel, accompanied by municipal officials, reached the building on Thursday afternoon to remove the board. Banerjee and other TMC leaders allegedly tried to stop them and questioned whether they had the authority to enter the premises.But the police entered the building and removed the board. While the police personnel and municipal officials were making their way to the roof, O’Brien reportedly fell on the stairs. The TMC has alleged that the Kolkata Municipal Corporation had failed to provide a valid notice to the TMC about the signboard. It also alleged that the municipal officials had assaulted Banerjee and O’Brien after “trespassing” into the party office.The official “pushed and heckled” TMC supporters and staff, the party alleged. It further alleged that the clothes of the office’s women security personnel were torn.In the FIR, the police have claimed that while assisting the municipal officials, some unknown persons obstructed its personnel on the staircase and snatched the government-issued wireless handheld radio from a constable. When he tried to apprehend one of them, the persons allegedly assaulted the police personnel.It is further alleged that a woman police personnel was attacked with intent to outrage her modesty.Edited by Tanya Shrivastava.
Kolkata Police summons TMC’s Abhishek Banerjee, Derek O’Brien over party signboard removal scuffle
The police claimed that Trinamool leaders obstructed officers from doing their duty, while the party alleged that civic officials ‘trespassed’ into its office.












