Lagatar24 Desk
New Delhi, March 10: Delhi court sent Trinamool Congress (TMC) leader Anubrata Mondal to Enforcement Directorate (ED) custody for further 11 days on Friday in a cattle smuggling case.
Today, Special Judge Raghubir Singh granted the ED’s request for Anubrata Mondal to remain in custody for an additional 11 days. Mondal must be interrogated while in custody, according to the ED’s Special Public Prosecutor Nitesh Rana, in order to confront him with various defendants and case witnesses.
Cattle smuggling case | Delhi Court grants further 11-day ED remand of TMC's Anubrata Mondal.
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In his appearance on behalf of Mondal, attorney Mudit Jain said that the investigations were carried out behind closed doors without any site visits, which rendered them ineffective and unenthusiastic.
Anubrata Mondal, the TMC leader, recently had his default bail application rejected by the trial court.
Anubrata Mondal, the president of the TMC in Birbhum, is reportedly close to Mamata Banerjee, the chief minister of West Bengal. The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) had already detained him on July 11 in connection with the same case.
After questioning him in the Asansol jail where he was being held, ED recently made him an arrest in the suspected multi-crore cattle smuggling scheme. In the matter, the court had previously remarked that this ED case is predicated on a Scheduled Offense (CBI case), which is currently being heard in Asansol, West Bengal, in a CBI Court, and for which some of the accused have been taken into judicial custody.
