West Bengal cattle smuggling case: In reference to the West Bengal cattle smuggling rip-off case, the Enforcement Directorate (ED) on Wednesday arrested Trinamool Congress (TMC) chief Anubrata Mondal’s daughter Sukanya Mondal. According to studies, the ED had summoned Sukanya a number of occasions to query her in reference to the rip-off. However, she has averted the summons to this point.
Notably, Anubrata Mondal has already been arrested and is at present in judicial custody. She was arrested by the ED eight months after her father, Anubrata Mondal, was arrested in August final yr. The ED wished to query her in regards to the sources of funds within the firms and rice mills in West Bengal’s Birbhum district the place she had been having directorship or partnership.
What TMC chief Kunal Ghosh mentioned?
Meanwhile, TMC State General Secretary Kunal Ghosh has raised questions on the timing of her arrest. “Sukanya Mondal has been arrested. The law will take its own course. TMC is not defending her but in this particular case we have a point that her mother died 3 months ago, her father is in jail and she is the only child, is there any real requirement to arrest her?” he requested.
The probe revealed that she is the director of two firms, Neer Developer Pvt Ltd and ANM Agrochem Foods Pvt Ltd. The firms have their workplaces on the similar handle the place Bholebam Rice Mill, which can also be owned by her, is positioned in Birbhum’s Bolpur city.
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Sukanya’s hyperlinks to rice mills
Apart from that, she had been having partnerships in quite a lot of rice mills in Birbhum district. Earlier, she was questioned by the ED however she denied having any data or particulars in regards to the firms, rice mills or different properties in her identify.
The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) on September 21, 2020, arrested a former Border Security Force (BSF) Commandant, in reference to an unlawful cattle smuggling case throughout the Indo-Bangladesh border. Anubrata Mondal’s identify got here beneath the CBI scanner throughout the investigation of the case.
(With inputs from companies)
