TMC heavyweight Anubrata Mondal arrested by ED in cattle smuggling scam
Hindustan TimesTrinamool Congress heavyweight Anubrata Mondal was on Thursday arrested by the Enforcement Directorate in connection with the multi-crore cattle smuggling scam more than five hours after the federal agency questioned the West Bengal leader inside the Asansol jail where he is currently lodged. The TMC Birbhum district president and a close aide of chief minister Mamata Banerjee was earlier arrested by the Central Bureau of Investigation in connection with the same case on July 11. Earlier, the CBI claimed to have recovered properties worth several crores of rupees which Mondal had allegedly registered in the name of his daughter, family members and other close aides. The ruling Trinamool Congress criticised the arrest and called it yet another instance of central agencies being misused for “political gains”.