The Election Commission of India (EC) on Tuesday issued orders to maintain Trinamool Congress chief Anubrata Mondal beneath surveillance of the chief Justice of the Peace and CAPF from April 27 to April 30 to guarantee free and honest polling.
This got here hours after the Birbhum district president of the TMC knowledgeable the anti-corruption department of the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) that he wouldn’t have the opportunity to seem earlier than it until election comes to an finish.
The CBI on Monday summoned him to seem earlier than it on Tuesday for questioning in reference to its probe into cross-border cattle smuggling.
Sources mentioned the Birbhum district president of the TMC was requested to seem earlier than officers of the central company at its Nizam Palace workplace in Kolkata.
However, TMC supremo and Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee mentioned that she has requested Mandal to intimate officers involved that he would have the opportunity to seem earlier than them solely after the meeting elections, which is about to conclude on April 29.
“I requested him to inform them that he would have the opportunity to go to their workplace solely after the polling course of is over. He is president of the TMC’s district unit, and can’t be summoned all of a sudden within the center of the elections. In the previous, too, he was put beneath surveillance by the EC throughout polls. Such harassment shouldn’t be allowed,” said the ruling camp supremo during a meeting of party workers and candidates in Kolkata.
The CBI, which has been probing cases of illegal cattle trade for quite some time, has said that animals sourced from different places are regularly smuggled out via the India-Bangladesh border.
The CBI, in its first chargesheet, has named at least seven accused, including BSF commandant Satish Kumar and businessman Enamul Haq. Both Haq and Kumar have been arrested for their alleged involvement in the case.
The agency has also raided properties of TMC leader Vinay Mishra, who is considered to be a close aide of the chief minister’s nephew Abhishek Banerjee.
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