Kolkata: After denying to meet BJP leader Suvendu Adhikari at his Delhi residence, Solicitor General Tushar Mehta has now refused to meet TMC leader Kunal Ghosh. He reportedly tried to meet Mehta without an appointment. The Trinamool Congress (TMC) addressed President Ram Nath Kovind a letter on Monday demanding that Mehta be removed as Solicitor General of India as it ‘raises extremely serious doubts of impropriety.’
Mehta is representing the CBI in the Supreme Court and the Calcutta High Court in the agency's investigation of senior TMC leaders in the Narada sting case, Adhikari, a former TMC heavyweight, is a suspect in the same case.
Mehta has previously denied meeting Adhikari and said “Suvendu Adhikari did visit my residence-cum-office unannounced.” AITC General Secretary Abhishek Banerjee demanded for the release of Mehta's residence-turned-office CCTV footage from July 1 afternoon, when Adhikari paid a visit.
The letter, which was submitted to the President by a delegation of TMC MPs in Rashtrapati Bhavan, said, “Such a meeting between one of India's highest-ranking law officers, the solicitor general, who is also the Special Public Prosecutor for the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI), and an accused person under investigation by the same agency, raises extremely serious suspicions of impropriety.”
It further said, “This is a deeply troubling matter of national importance that raises grave doubts of impropriety in one of India’s highest legal offices – the Office of the Solicitor General of India.”