the ED arrested senior Trinamool Congress leader and the party's Birbhum district president Anubrata Mondal in connection with the multi-crore cattle smuggling case after a marathon interrogation at Asansol Correctional Home where he has been lodged, the agency officials said.
Cattle smuggling case: ED sources said the agency will now seek custody of Mondal. It will also initiate the legal process for taking Mondal to Delhi and question him at the agency's headquarters in the national capital.
Cattle smuggling case: The central agency suspected that several bank accounts belonging to Sukanya were used for financial transactions in the cattle scam.
Sukanya Mondal also submitted copies of her income tax returns details for the last five years.
The judge of the MP/MLA court acquitted Mondal and the others for want of evidence. The prosecution could not prove from the testimonies of witnesses that the accused were present at the scene of violence, the court held.
Anubrata Mondal case: The lawyers said that Special CBI Court, Asansol Judge Rajesh Chakraborty has been threatened by one Bappa Chatterjee by writing a letter addressed to him.
Cattle smuggling case: Rejecting the bail plea of Mondal, Asansol special CBI court judge Rajesh Chakraborty remanded him to judicial custody till September 7.
Cattle smuggling scam: The CBI on Monday raided a rice mill here in Birbhum district allegedly owned by a close relative of TMC leader Anubrata Mondal, who is in the central agency’s custody in connection with a cattle smuggling case, a senior official said.
Anubrata Mondal news: His comment came after the Calcutta High Court on August 17 directed his daughter Sukanya Mondal to appear before it on Thursday in connection with the allegation that she got job in primary schools without having passed the TET.
Mondal (62), who is presently TMC's Birbhum district president and member of the party's national working committee, rose to prominence in the 11 years of the TMC regime in Bengal, mostly for his audacious statements and browbeating.
Anubrata Mondal, a close aide of Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee, was arrested after almost an hour-long interrogation by a CBI team that arrived at the Birbhum district president's house early on Thursday.
Anubrata Mondal news: West Bengal BJP co-incharge Amit Malviya said that she gives state protection to those who operate crime and extortion syndicates under her watch.
Kolkata: The CPI-M Tuesday hit out at Mamata Banerjee saying as long as she was the chief minister of West Bengal, people accused of crime in her Trinamool Congress will remain untouched.Referring to Banerjee and
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