The Supreme Court on Monday agreed to hear a plea to examine if the Central Bureau of Investigation can exercise its jurisdiction over railway areas without the consent of the state government, Live Law reported. The court sought responses from the Centre and the investigation agency in the matter.
The plea was filed by Anup Majee, the director of a company engaged in purchase and sale of the dry fuel, reported PTI. Majee is an accused in a case of alleged illegal coal trading in the Asansol-Raniganj belt of West Bengal.
Majee’s case assumes significance as it comes at a time when the CBI has issued summons to West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee’s nephew and Trinamool Congress MP Abhishek Banerjee in connection with the alleged coal pilferage case. The agency has asked his wife and sister-in-law to join the investigation.
As far as Majee’s plea is concerned, on February 12, a division bench of the Calcutta High Court had granted permission to the CBI to…