The Enforcement Directorate (ED) has summoned eight senior police officers of West Bengal to appear for questioning next week before the agency’s office in the national Capital in connection with the coal smuggling case.
The Indian Police Service (IPS) officers summoned by ED are Gyanwant Singh (ADG, CID), Koteswara Rao, S Selvamurugan, Shyam Singh, Rajeev Mishra, Sukesh Kumar Jain and Tathagata Basu, officials said. The IPS officers have been given specific dates to appear before the ED at its New Delhi office, they added. "These IPS officers played crucial roles in the coal smuggling case.
There is evidence that these officers benefited from the scam. All of them were posted in areas where the smuggling happened," the ED official said. Last year, seven of these eight officers were summoned by the ED for questioning in the case.
