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Anubrata Mondal, the leader of the TMC, and his relatives and colleagues are suspected of smuggling livestock, and the CBI has ordered the three banks to disclose information about transactions they may have conducted. The Trinamool Congress (TMC) politician Anubrata Mondal and his family members and colleagues are suspected in the cattle smuggling case, and the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) has requested information from three banks in Bolpur town, in Bengal’s Birbhum district.
The Punjab National Bank (PNB), State Bank of India (SBI), and Axis Bank, where Mondal, his daughter Sukanya, and the other suspects have accounts, have all received notices from the CBI.
At the CBI’s Kolkata office, Kerim Khan, a district TMC leader, was interrogated for more than seven hours during the day. Khan was also questioned on Tuesday at the agency’s camp headquarters in Bolpur. Khan is reputed to be a close friend of Mondal.
Sukanya Mondal, who was called to the camp office on Monday, avoided questioning and instead informed CBI in an email that she was ill and needed some time to recover, according to an officer who wished to remain anonymous.
On September 28, a fire that was thought to have been started by an electrical short circuit destroyed a sizable quantity of records housed in the record room of the Axis Bank branch in Bolpur.
Since July, CBI agents have made many trips to the branch in relation to the cattle smuggling case in which Mondal, the president of the TMC’s Birbhum district unit, was detained on August 11. He is currently being held under judicial supervision and is being held at the nearby West Burdwan neighborhood’s Asansol Correctional Home.
According to CBI agents, Mondal and his daughter, who serves as the director of the two firms under investigation, both have accounts at the Axis bank.
Around the same time that Sukanya Mondal’s attorney gave the CBI the financial transaction records of the two companies that the federal agency had requested, the records room caught fire.
Although Raja Ghosh, the nephew of the TMC leader, was questioned by the investigating police for four hours on October 12, Sukanya Mondal, a primary school teacher, also declined to participate in the interview due to sickness.
Anubrata Mondal was charged by the CBI last month with being connected to 168 land and property deeds that were completed in or after 2014. The federal government believes that at least two dozen of these are Mondal’s, while the remaining 144 registration papers list his family members, staff members, and close associates.
The CBI believes that the money utilised to purchase these homes was taken via livestock smuggling.
