India, June 1 -- KOLKATA A written complaint by two Trinamool Congress (TMC) legislators, Ritabrata Banerjee and Sandipan Saha, led to the Criminal Investigation Department (CID) probe into the forgery of some signatures on a May 19 resolution nominating Sobhandeb Chattopadhyay as the leader of the opposition (LoP), West Bengal chief minister Suvendu Adhikari said on Monday, an announcement that promptly led the TMC to expel the two legislators.

"Ritabrata Banerjee and Sandipan Saha submitted a written complaint to assembly speaker Rathindra Bose on May 25 stating that no resolution on this issue was adopted at a meeting called on May 6. They said that of the 70 signatures in the May 19 resolution submitted to the speaker, 13 were in blo...