Delhi Police Issues Notice to Mamata Banerjee in 13-Year-Old Case Related to SFI Protest

Former West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee has been issued a notice by the Delhi Police in a 13-year-old case. The police have asked her to join the investigation and cooperate with the investigating officer. The case relates to an FIR registered at Parliament Street Police Station, Delhi on 9 April 2013. According to the information, the Delhi Police has sent a notice to Mamata Banerjee under Section 160 of the CrPC. She has been given liberty to fix a date and place to meet the investigating officer as per her convenience. The police have clarified that she has been served a notice as a witness on behalf of the complainant in the case. In fact, on 9 April 2013, a protest was held in Delhi by the Students Federation of India (SFI) surrounding Mamata Banerjee and Amit Mitra (then Finance Minister of West Bengal). A demonstration was held in front of NITI Aayog. Amit Mitra was manhandled in the incident. Ritabrata Banerjee, then SFI general secretary and current Leader of Opposition in the state, was arrested in that case. Mamata Banerjee was cooperating with the investigating officer in the FIR registered at Delhi's Parliament Street Police Station.