After prolonged legal battles fought at various levels and months after he was arrested on charges of running multi-core cattle smuggling racket, Trinamool Congress strongman and its national executive member Anubrata Mondal was on Tuesday flown off to Delhi by the Enforcement Directorate.
Mondal who according to the federal investigating agencies was not cooperating in investigation is likely to be produced at the Rouse Avenue Court on Wednesday subsequent to which fresh sessions of his interrogation away from his familiar environment might start ED sources said.
In Delhi he could be made to "sir opposite and confront" his one time personal security officer Saigal Hussein presently lodged in Tihar Jail on same charges. Earlier on Tuesday following a special CBI Court order --- and after the Delhi and Calcutta High Courts refused to grant him any relief --- Mondal who was parked in Asansol Jail was taken for medical checkup at a central government run ESI hospital before being taken to Netaji Subhas Airport.
The Rouse Avenue Court had last week asked the ED as to why he was not being produced despite a production warrant being issued as back as December last year.
Mondal was avoiding his Delhi sojourn on health and other grounds and had filled petitions both in Delhi and Calcutta High Courts which were however rejected by the said Courts.
On whether newer truths would come out after Mondal's interrogation in Delhi, senior TMC minister Firhad Hakim said that "the BJP's agency Raj will one day be defeated by the democratic raj."
BJP"s Samik Bhattacharya said that intense interrogation of Mondal would now bring to the fore names of TMC's top leadership.