Illegal coal mining case: CBI searches at 5 areas in West Bengal
2 min read The CBI on Tuesday carried out searches at 5 areas in poll-bound West Bengal in reference to the unlawful coal mining case involving alleged kingpin Anup Manjhi, officers mentioned.
The searches are being performed at 5 areas of Manjhi’s alleged affiliate Amit Agrawal, a businessman, in Durgapur, Asansol and Bankura, they mentioned.
Eight part polling for meeting elections in West Bengal is scheduled to start from March 27.
With 294 seats at stake, the BJP is main a vigorous marketing campaign to oust the ruling TMC which had secured consecutive wins in 2011 and 2016 beneath its chief Mamata Banerjee.
The CBI has already questioned Rujira Banerjee, spouse of Abhishek Banerjee, Lok Sabha Member of Parliament from Diamond Harbour constituency and nephew of CM Mamata Banerjee who wields appreciable affect within the social gathering and has been main the Trinamool Congress’ counter-attack.
The company had additionally questioned Abhishek Banerjee’s sister-in-law in reference to the case, they mentioned.
The multi-crore coal pilferage rip-off is said to the ECL mines within the state’s Kunustoria and Kajora areas.
The CBI had registered an FIR in November final yr in opposition to the alleged kingpin of the pilferage racket, Anup Manjhi alias Lala, ECL normal managers Amit Kumar Dhar and Jayesh Chandra Rai, ECL safety chief Tanmay Das, Kunustoria space safety inspector Dhananjay Rai and Kajor space safety in-charge Debashish Mukherjee.
Dhar, the then Kunustoria space normal supervisor, is now posted in Pandaveswar, whereas Rai is normal supervisor for the Kajor space.
It is alleged that Manjhi is concerned in unlawful mining and theft of coal from leasehold mines of ECL within the Kunustoria and Kajora areas, the officers mentioned.
