In a major development a senior BSF official facing charges of cow-smuggling was questioned for several hours by the Central Bureau of Investigation.
Cows worth several thousand crores were smuggled out to Bangladesh in 2016-17 when Satish Kumar a senior commanding of the BSF posted here, sources said.
The CBI had earlier raided Kumar’s residence at Salt Lake. According to sources Kumar who appeared at the Nizam Palace of the central agency was asked as to whether other influential persons were involved in the racket or not. He was reportedly avoiding certain questions, sources said.