Cattle smuggling case: CBI files charge sheet against TMC Birbhum district chief Anubrata Mondal

Trinamool Congress (TMC) Birbhum district president AnubrataMondal, who is known to be a close aide of party supremo and West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee, has been sent to 14-day judicial custody by the CBI Special Court after he was arrested on August 11 from his residence in Birbhum’s Bolpur.

Somya Lohia

Updated Oct 7, 2022, 21:14 IST

The CBI has filed the charge sheet against Anubrata Mondal before the CBI Special court in Asansol. (File image)

Photo : IANS

New Delhi: The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) has filed a charge sheet against Trinamool Congress (TMC) Birbhum district president Anubrata Mondal in connection with a cattle smuggling case.

The central agency has filed the charge sheet against Mondal before the CBI Special court in Asansol, reported news agency ANI.

Mondal, who is known to be a close aide of party supremo and West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee, has been sent to 14-day judicial custody by the CBI Special Court after he was arrested on August 11 from his residence in Birbhum’s Bolpur.

Earlier in the day, a team of the Enforcement Directorate (ED) reached Asansol jail to interrogate Mondal’s personal security guard Saigal Hussain arrested in the cattle smuggling case.

In September 2020, the central agency had arrested a former Border Security Force (BSF) Commandant, in connection with an illegal cattle smuggling case across the Indo-Bangladesh border. During the investigation of the case, Anubrata Mondal’s name came under the scanner, according to reports.

On September 16, the CBI raided and arrested Mondal’s daughter, Sukanya Mondal.

The main office of the JHM Group in West Bengal’s Bentinck street, which belonged to the nephews of Enamul Haque namely Humayun Kabir, Jahangir Alam, and Mehedi Hasan, was also raided in connection with the cattle smuggling case, according to the Crime Investigation Department (CID).

Haque was arrested by the ED on February 18 and is currently in judicial custody. The total attachment in this case has reached Rs 11.67 crore. Proceeds of crime to the tune of Rs 418 crore till now were identified by the ED.

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