Bengal IPS officer questioned in coal smuggling case
India Today
Sources told India Today that the ED has already questioned a few other IPS officers from West Bengal in connection with the coal smuggling case.
The Enforcement Directorate (ED) on Monday questioned Bengal IPS officer Akash Magharia in connection with a coal smuggling case. He was summoned by the Enforcement Directorate head office in Delhi.
Akash Magharia is stationed as the DCP of Kolkata Police (south division). On September 20, he got a notice from the ED asking him to appear for questioning at the agency's head office in Delhi.
Sources told India Today that the ED has already questioned a few other IPS officers from West Bengal in connection with the case.
Additional director general (ADG) of the West Bengal Special Task Force (STF) Gyanwant Singh has been asked to present himself at the ED headquarters in Delhi on September 28. He had earlier skipped the ED's summons. IPS Koteswar Rao of West Bengal appeared before the investigating officers of the Enforcement Directorate in New Delhi last month in connection with the same case.
TMC general secretary Abhishek Banerjee was questioned by the ED for seven hours on September 2 in connection with the probe into the coal smuggling case.
The Enforcement Directorate and the CBI are probing allegations of illegal excavation, transportation, and sale of coal from some districts of West Bengal. Several top politicians in West Bengal linked to the Trinamool Congress are also under the scanner of the ED in this case.
