After the arrest of Trinamool Congress strongman and party national executive member Anubrata Mondal on cattle smuggling charges, the Central Bureau of Investigation is focusing on the properties owned by his daughter Sukanya Mondal and at least 15 others including police officials and politicians close to the arrested TMC leader.
According to sources Mondal has properties worth several hundred crores in Kolkata and other parts of Bengal. "Very recently the CBI has discovered at least six plots in Birbhum and three appartments at New Town in Kolkata ... This apart from petrol pumps, rice mills stone queries," said sources.
The senior leader known for spreading terror to win elections, has been named in several places in a supplementary chargesheet filed by the CBI in a designated cort in Asansol. The CBI chargesheet was filled after the interrogation of a number of his associates including a police constable and his former security staff Saigal Hussein who too has amassed property worth tens of crores, agency sources said.
"Most of these properties were acquired between 2011 and 2020 ... Out of the cow smuggling money ... In this one Md Latif a marble trader had a big hand ... He was the link man between Saigal Hussein the security officer of Anubrata Mondal and Enamul Haq," the jailed mastermind of cattle smuggling sources said.
Call record details show that Haq and Hussein had mobile calls as many as 16 times in a matter of a few days. Though Mondal has denied having knowledge of these calls investigators say all conversations took place between him and Haq through Hussen's phone.
Sources also said that Mondal used to get Rs 24 cr a year as protection money for managing the police administration on which he had enormous control by dint of his being the TMC district president.
While Mondal has denied all the allegations the CBI is now "trying to get him from reverse... That is he has been asked to explain the source of his fortune earned after TMC came to power ... Before this he was a small trader," sources said.
Meanwhile, after Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee decided to go on the offensive saying she firmly stood by Mondal — a stance she would not take in the case of her arrested Cabinet colleague Partha Chatterjee — the TMC on Tuesday started ‘Khela Hobe’ rallies through out the State protesting the BJP Government' alleged partisan ways.
The TMC workers burnt effigies of Suvendu Adhikari on Khela Hobe Diwas on Tuesday demanding his arrest for his alleged involvement in Narada and Sharada chit fund scams. "If the ED, CBI arrest TMC leaders why will they spare
Khela Hobe (game is on) first coined by Mondal allegedly suggesting physical attacks on the Opposition before last year's Assembly elections --- that saw TMC roaring back to power --- had become an instant hit in 2021.
Meanwhile, the Left leadership on Tuesday said that more ministers would come in the ED net thanks to a PIL on disproportionate asset brought in the High Court. The matter is scheduled to be heard early next month. The Court has asked the petitioners to make ED a party to the case.