Police denies time to Mukul Roy in cheating case of R’way..

Kolkata/New Delhi, Dec 9 (HS): Kolkata Police today denied more time to Mukul Roy, a member of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) National Executive, in a case in which he allegedly demanded and accepted as bribe Rs. 60 lakh in the name of membership in the Railway Board. The police has turned down his plea and asked him to appear in the ACP office in the afternoon on 12 December.

In this case a Special Investigative Team (SIT) has been formed, headed by Assistant Commissioner Partha Per Das. A notice was sent to Mukul on his behalf and he was asked to appear at Parnashree police station on Monday morning, but in the afternoon, Mukul was replaced by two of his lawyers.

He gave a letter from Mukul to Partha Pratima Das. The letter said that due to the ongoing election work in Jharkhand, Mukul has gone there so he needed time till December 18.

The Assistant Commissioner then spoke to the high officials and thereafter rejected Mukul’s application, making it clear that Mukul would have to be present at the Assistant Commissioner’s office on December 12 at 12 noon.

On December 4, in the Calcutta High Court, a bench of Judges Saidullah Munshi and Shubhashish Dasgupta had directed that the police could not take any action against Mukul until a verdict is reached in the matter. It also directed that if Mukul needed to be called to the police station for questioning, he would have to be given notice of 72 hours.