: Trinamool Congress leader Anubrata Mondal’s bail plea rejected in cattle smuggling case #IndiaNEWS A special court in West Bengal’s Asansol on Saturday rejected Trinamool Congress leader Anubrata

Trinamool Congress leader Anubrata Mondal’s bail plea rejected in cattle smuggling case #IndiaNEWS
A special court in West Bengal’s Asansol on Saturday rejected Trinamool Congress leader Anubrata Mondal’s bail plea in connection with a cross-border cattle smuggling scam and sent him to the custody of the Central Bureau of Investigation till August 24, PTI reported.The central agency had urged the court to extend his custody, saying that Mondal was a “very powerful and highly influential person???. If he gets bail, he could influence witnesses and tamper evidence, the agency added.The Central Bureau of Investigation also claimed that Mondal has not been cooperating in the inquiry since the beginning. According to the agency, he coerced a doctor to prescribe him bedrest.The caseMondal, the president of the Trinamool Birbhum district unit, was arrested on August 11 in the case, which relates to the smuggling of cattle through the India-Bangladesh border. West Bengal shares a 2216 km border with Bangladesh.On September 21, 2020, the Central Bureau of Investigation filed a first information report. It later filed a supplementary chargesheet in the case naming Saigal Hossain, a bodyguard of Mondal, Vikash Mishra, the brother of Vinay Kumar Mishra of the Trinamool Youth Congress and a man named Abdul Latif.Hossain, who was arrested in June, played a key role by collecting money that was part of the...Read more

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