Anubrata Mondal, the president of the Trinamool Congress (TMC), was recently detained by the Enforcement Directorate (ED) for an additional 11 days in connection with a suspected livestock trafficking incident.
After being detained in a cash laundering investigation involving cattle smuggling, the ED actually took him to Delhi. 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. In his appearance upon behalf of Mondal, attorney Mudit Jain said that the inquiries were carried out behind locked doors even without site visits, therefore rendering investigators ineffective and unenthusiastic.
Anubrata Mondal, the TMC leader, had his default bail request recently rejected by the high Court. Anubrata Mondal, the leader of the TMC in Birbhum, is reportedly close to Mamata Banerjee, the governor general of West Bengal. The investigators from the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) had already detained him on July 11 in relation with that particular case.
Following questioning him from inside of the Asansol prison where he was currently held, ED quickly announced him an investigation in the suspected multi-crore livestock importation scheme. In the matter, the judge had previously stated that this Directorate investigation was predicated on the Scheduled Offense (CBI case), which is currently being heard in Asansol, Kolkata, in an Enforcement directorate Courtroom, and for the reason that certain of the defendants have been taken into detention centers.