A CBI special court on Wednesday remanded Trinamool Congress strongman Anubrata Mondal in 14 days' judicial custody.
Mondal, a TMC national executive member and party Birbhum district president, was arrested early this month for his alleged role in multi crore cow smuggling along Bangladesh border.
The CBI told the court that there was strong suspicion that the properties belonging to Mondal's relatives and aides were linked to cow smuggling.
The Birbhum TMC president who is known for his proximity to Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee, was arrested days after the arrest of another Trinamool heavy-duty and minister Partha Chatterjee after the Enforcement Directorate recovered Rs 50 crore and huge amount of jewellery and property deeds from his aide Arpita Mukherjee's flats.
According to sources the ED too had taken up Mondal's case after the CBI discovered a large number of properties including a number of rice mills, hotels, resorts, farmhouses etc worth several hundred crores through out Birbhum and other places.
A group of about 50 ED officials had come to Kolkata and we're preparing to take Mondal in their custody after registering cases under PMLA laws.
Meanwhile the CBI on Wednesday raided the Siliguri residence of North Bengal University Vice-Chancellor, Subiresh Bhattacharya, in connection with the teachers’ recruitment scam.
A second CBI team raided his flat in Bansdroni area of South Kolkata. As the flat was locked the central Agency sealed the apartment
Bhattacharya was the chairman of School Service Commission when the school level recruitment scam took place.