CBI summons TMC's Anubrata Mondal again in 2020 cattle smuggling case

The CBI has asked TMC leader Anubrata Mondal to be present at its Kolkata office on Wednesday for questioning in a 2020 cattle smuggling case.

Trinamool Congress’s (TMC) Birbhum district president Anubrata Mondal has been summoned by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) in connection with a cattle smuggling case.

Mondal has been asked to appear at the agency’s office at Nizam Palace in Kolkata at 11 am on Wednesday. Sources said he had been notified through e-mail. He had skipped a previous summons on Monday by the agency citing ill health.

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As per his lawyer, he had mailed the CBI seeking a change in date as he had a scheduled hospital appointment at Kolkata's SSKM Hospital.

The medical board which treated Mondal mentioned that there was no need for admission to the hospital.

Mondal’s name came up in the cattle smuggling scam case after the CBI registered an FIR in 2020. According to the CBI, between 2015 and 2017, over 20,000 cattle heads had been seized by the Border security force as they were being smuggled across the border.

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