Kolkata: Union Home Minister Amit Shah was summoned on Friday by a designated MP/MLA Court in West Bengal to appear either personally or through a lawyer before it on February 22 in connection with a defamation case filed against him by Trinamool Congress MP Abhishek Banerjee.
The Bidhannagar Special Judge of MP/MLA Court directed that Amit Shah is “required to appear in person/by pleader” at 10 am on that day. The Judge directed that Amit Shah’s attendance either personally or through a lawyer is necessary to answer to a charge of defamation under section 500 of the IPC.
Mamata Benerjee’s nephew Abhishek Benerjee’s lawyer Sanjay Basu in a press note, claimed that Amit Shah had made certain defamatory statements against the Trinamool MP on August 11, 2018 at a rally of the BJP at Mayo Road in Kolkata.