In a second major blow to the ruling Trinamool Congress in a matter of three weeks, the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) on Thursday arrested party strongman and its national executive member Anubrata Mondal in a cattle smuggling case.
Mondal, a senior leader and Birbhum district president, evaded 10 out of 11 CBI summons and was arrested by the central agency in an early morning swoop on his Bolpur residence in Birbhum
district.
Mondal’s residence is barely a mile away from the iconic Shantiniketan-Viswa Bharati of Rabindranath Tagore.
While his lawyers could not pray for bail, the TMC leader was remanded to 10 days CBI custody by a special court at Asansol.
Mondal’s arrest comes three weeks after the Enforcement Directorate (ED) arrested senior Bengal Minister and party secretary general Partha Chatterjee and his close aide Arpita Mukherjee on money laundering charges connected to the school-level recruitment scam.
