NEW DELHI: The CBI has arrested Bengal Trinamool Congress leader Anubrata Mondal from his Bolpur residence in connection with a cattle smuggling case.
A CBI team arrived at the house of Mondal, TMC’s Birbhum district chief, in Bolpur this morning and arrested him after almost an hour-long interrogation. The agency said he was not cooperating in the cattle smuggling probe.
He was taken to a hospital for medical check-up, and then to the CBI transit office.
The TMC leader had twice skipped his scheduled appearance before the central probe agency in the last few days, citing ill-health.
Earlier this month, CBI teams raided 13 locations, including the residences of Mondal loyalist Karim Khan and his aide Ziaul Haque at Ilambazar and Nanoor. Another CBI team reached the house of stone merchant Tulu Mandal, known to be close to the TMC leader.
Apart from Rs 17 lakh and 10 mobile phones, the agency recovered pen drives, hard discs and the key of a locker.