Kolkata: The CBI today arrested West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee’s close aide and Birbhum district TMC president Anubrata Mandal from his residence in connection with the 2020 cattle smuggling case.
Earlier, Mandal had avoided CBI’s summons 10 times. That is why ‘CBI’ had to take help of the court. After receiving the last summons, Mandal informed by e-mail that he could not appear at the CBI office due to a ‘medical check-up’.
During the investigation, ‘CBI‘ had already interrogated Mandal 2 times.
After the CBI registered an FIR in 2020, it came to know that his name was involved in the cattle smuggling scam. According to the CBI, between 2015 and 2017, the Border Security Force seized more than 20,000 cattle while being smuggled across the border.
In recent years, the CBI has conducted raids in various parts of the district after receiving information about their involvement in the case of cattle smuggling. Mandal’s bodyguard Saigal Hossain has also been arrested by CBI.
It is worth noting that this Trinamool Congress leader is suffering from hypoxia and keeps oxygen with him.