ED arrests Bengal cop in coal pilferage case
The Enforcement Directorate (ED) has arrested West Bengal police officer Ashok Mishra in a case of coal pilferage, company officers mentioned on Sunday.
Mishra, the inspector answerable for Bankura police station for the previous 3 years, used to be arrested on Saturday evening.
Assets mentioned the EC summoned the officer for wondering after which arrested him. He’s allegedly with regards to the rip-off’s suspected kingpin Anup Majhi alias Lala, and is accused of being excited about monetary transactions with coal smugglers. Majhi is scheduled to look earlier than the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) on Monday for wondering.
He has been interrogated two times until now.
Except Majhi, Trinamool Congress MP Abhishek Banerjee’s spouse Rujira Banerjee and her sister Menaka Gambhir had been puzzled. Menaka’s husband and father, railway officers, businessmen, and several other law enforcement officials have additionally been quizzed.
The CBI filed a case on November 27, 2020, in reference to its inquiries into alleged unlawful mining and robbery of coal from the Kunustoria and Kajoria coal fields of Jap Coalfield Restricted (ECL). The FIR named a number of senior ECL officers, and unidentified officers of the Central Commercial Safety Drive (CISF), Railways and different executive departments. They have been charged beneath IPC sections 120B (legal conspiracy) and 409 (legal breach of accept as true with via public servant) and beneath the Prevention of Corruption Act.
Closing month, the ED arrested TMC chief Vinay Mishra’s brother Vikash Mishra in Delhi in reference to a livestock smuggling racket and the coal robbery case. Vinay Mishra has been evading interrogation, following which a lookout round used to be issued towards him, officers mentioned. The directorate is probing the cash path within the coal case, in keeping with assets.
BJP releases clip, alleges Abhishek involvement
Kolkata: BJP chief Suvendu Adhikari on Sunday launched an audio dialog purportedly between an unidentified individual and major accused within the coal pilferage case Anup Majhi’s aide Ganesh Bagaria, and claimed TMC MP Abhishek Banerjee’s involvement. The TMC denied the allegation, pronouncing the discharge used to be BJP’s try to sidestep actual problems in view of its forthcoming defeat within the Meeting polls. The Indian information may now not independently examine the content material of the audio clip. Adhikari alleged that TMC leaders had gained as much as Rs 900 crore over 10-12 years. “The TMC and the executive minister are at once concerned within the coal rip-off. The nephew is carefully associated with Ganesh Bagaria, who has severe allegations towards him. Any other best friend of the nephew, Vikash Mishra, has already been arrested. Police and IPS officials are embroiled within the coal case. We wish the central businesses probing the case to hurry up the investigation,” he mentioned at a information convention in Kolkata.
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