Cattle smuggling case: ED value sheet reveals ‘involvement of BSF’; Mamata targets Centre

By Express News Service

KOLKATA: In a 204-page supplementary value sheet submitted by the Enforcement Directorate (ED) inside the cattle smuggling case sooner than a Delhi courtroom docket on Thursday, the central firm talked about BSF’s (Border Security Force) direct involvement and nexus with the suspects serving to them to produce passage to ship cattle to Bangladesh.

It is also recalled that Trinamool Congress strongman Anubrata Mondal and his daughter Sukanya have been arrested in reference to the case.

The TMC leaders see inside the central firm’s findings a political instrument to concentrate on the BJP-led authorities on the Centre, since BSF comes under the Ministry of Home Affairs.

“All Truck drivers transporting the cattle of this syndicate were given a PAD (Token). A PAD/ token was an identification so that there is no hindrance by local administration or police authority in the transportation of cattle.  Each truck driver was given directions towards the border outpost (BOP) at Nimitita, Khandua and Giria situated in Murshidabad district under the 36- Battalion of the BSF. The drivers had to deliver these cattle for further smuggling through local operatives. Mostly the cattle used to be sent through the border between 11 PM and 3 A.M. in connivance with BSF officials,” talked about an ED official quoting the associated fee sheet.

While addressing a rally in Murshidabad district on Friday, chief minister Mamata Banerjee slammed the Centre on the issue of cattle smuggling. “BSF is directly involved in the cattle smuggling and it is a central agency. The BSF is responsible for guarding the border. How can they not be held accountable if cows are being smuggled from right under their nose? Our party functionaries are being maligned to hide their failure,” she talked about.

Last 12 months, the CBI arrested BSF’s commandant of the 36 Battalion Satish Kumar in reference to cattle smuggling and the ED moreover later took him into custody. Kumar is presently in Tihar jail.

Mamata, who might be Trinamool Congress’s chairperson, and her nephew Abhishek Banerjee, moreover the nationwide fundamental secretary of the event, have been constantly elevating BSF’s involvement.    

TMC minister Firhad Hakim talked about the central probe firm lastly agreed with what his event has been claiming for prolonged. He moreover questioned why cattle smuggling cases sooner than 2011, by the Left Front regime in Bengal, are being not famous.  

“We have repeatedly raised our voices and pointed out that it is the central force that guards the border is responsible for cattle smuggling across the border areas,” Hakim added. 

KOLKATA: In a 204-page supplementary value sheet submitted by the Enforcement Directorate (ED) inside the cattle smuggling case sooner than a Delhi courtroom docket on Thursday, the central firm talked about BSF’s (Border Security Force) direct involvement and nexus with the suspects serving to them to produce passage to ship cattle to Bangladesh.

It is also recalled that Trinamool Congress strongman Anubrata Mondal and his daughter Sukanya have been arrested in reference to the case.

The TMC leaders see inside the central firm’s findings a political instrument to concentrate on the BJP-led authorities on the Centre, since BSF comes under the Ministry of Home Affairs.googletag.cmd.push(function() googletag.present(‘div-gpt-ad-8052921-2’); );

“All Truck drivers transporting the cattle of this syndicate were given a PAD (Token). A PAD/ token was an identification so that there is no hindrance by local administration or police authority in the transportation of cattle.  Each truck driver was given directions towards the border outpost (BOP) at Nimitita, Khandua and Giria situated in Murshidabad district under the 36- Battalion of the BSF. The drivers had to deliver these cattle for further smuggling through local operatives. Mostly the cattle used to be sent through the border between 11 PM and 3 A.M. in connivance with BSF officials,” talked about an ED official quoting the associated fee sheet.

While addressing a rally in Murshidabad district on Friday, chief minister Mamata Banerjee slammed the Centre on the issue of cattle smuggling. “BSF is directly involved in the cattle smuggling and it is a central agency. The BSF is responsible for guarding the border. How can they not be held accountable if cows are being smuggled from right under their nose? Our party functionaries are being maligned to hide their failure,” she talked about.

Last 12 months, the CBI arrested BSF’s commandant of the 36 Battalion Satish Kumar in reference to cattle smuggling and the ED moreover later took him into custody. Kumar is presently in Tihar jail.

Mamata, who might be Trinamool Congress’s chairperson, and her nephew Abhishek Banerjee, moreover the nationwide fundamental secretary of the event, have been constantly elevating BSF’s involvement.    

TMC minister Firhad Hakim talked about the central probe firm lastly agreed with what his event has been claiming for prolonged. He moreover questioned why cattle smuggling cases sooner than 2011, by the Left Front regime in Bengal, are being not famous.  

“We have repeatedly raised our voices and pointed out that it is the central force that guards the border is responsible for cattle smuggling across the border areas,” Hakim added.