Mamata Banerjee’s Nephew Injured in Accident, CID Begins Inquiry

TMC MP Abhishek Banerjee’s car collided head-on with a truck on Durgapur Expressway in West Bengal.

File photo of TMC MP Abhishek Banerjee. (Photo Courtesy: Facebook/Abhishek Banerjee)

Trinamool Congress (TMC) supremo Mamata Banerjee’s nephew and party member Abhishek Banerjee met with an accident on Tuesday evening.

The Parliamentarian was rushed to the hospital after his car crashed near Durgapur Expressway in Hooghly district. Following the accident, two special teams from CID and Kolkata Police initiated an inquiry into the cause of the accident, a senior CID officer said.

The 29-year-old MP from Diamond Harbour Lok Sabha constituency, reportedly suffered head injuries and was taken to the Belle Vue Clinic in Kolkata. Sources claim that he is stable but under observation.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi took to Twitter to wish him a speedy recovery.

TMC MP Abhishek Banerjee’s car which collided with a crane on Tuesday, 18 October 2016. (Photo Courtesy: Source)

A police official from the control room said, “The accident occurred at Ratanpur. He is being shifted to a nursing home in Kolkata.”

Abhishek Banerjee was injured when the vehicle he was travelling in met with an accident on Durgapur Expressway near Singur. He has been rushed to a hospital in Kolkata. I am yet to receive details about the accident or any report in this regard from the Superintendent of Police, Hooghly, Praveen Tripathy.

Anuj Sharma, ADG (Law and Order)

(Photo Courtesy: ANI)

Abhishek' car hit the pilot car which had collided with a crane; his car reportedly vaulted thrice, said a source.

Mamata Banerjee has reportedly asked the police to probe if the driver was drugged while media reports claim that she suspects the driver had fallen asleep.

While senior ministers from the party have rushed to the medical facility, Banerjee herself is expected to visit him.

(With inpouts form IANS, DNA)