Calcutta HC extends interim protection for Abhishek Banerjee in legislators' signature mismatch case

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Kolkata, July 17 (IANS) A single-judge bench of the Calcutta High Court on Friday extended the interim protection from coercive police actions, including arrest for Trinamool Congress General Secretary and the party's Lok Sabha member, Abhishek Banerjee, in the ongoing Criminal Investigation Department (CID) enquiry in the case of mismatch in the signatures of some Trinamool Congress legislators on a document pertaining to appointments of some crucial slots in the West Bengal Assembly that are reserved for the Opposition bench. The earlier interim protection to Abhishek Banerjee, the nephew of the former West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee, expired on Friday, following which the single-judge bench of Justice Kaushik Chanda…