Senior CPI(M) leader Gautam Deb has been summoned by the CID in connection with investigation into the alleged irregularities committed by him along with others when he was the housing minister in the previous government.
ADG (CID) of West Bengal Sivaji Ghosh confirmed despatch of the letter to Deb summoning him for interrogation.
Earlier this year, the state housing department had lodged a police complaint at Taltala police station alleging that major financial irregularities had been found in transaction of the Bengal Greenfield Housing Development Corporation Limited.
The company was one of the eight real estate firms with which the Left Front government had entered into a joint venture.
Deb was not available for his reaction.
Opposition Left Front on various occasions had accused the Trinamool regime of trying to harass its party leaders and former ministers through false cases.
