Calcutta HC rejects urgent hearing plea by Abhishek Banerjee's PA in alleged fake encounter case

Kolkata, Nov 10 (UNI) Sumit Roy, personal assistant to Trinamool Congress MP Abhishek Banerjee and an accused in the Shalbani land scam case, suffered another legal setback on Tuesday after the Calcutta High Court rejected a plea for an urgent hearing on his wife's allegation that he could be killed in a fake encounter. A division bench of Justice Sougata Bhattacharyya declined to grant an urgent hearing when the matter was mentioned before it on Tuesday. The bench directed that the petition be placed before the appropriate regular hearing bench in accordance with the prescribed procedure. Roy's wife had approached…