Land Worth Rs 6 Crore Attached In Bengal Illegal Coal Mining Case

The Enforcement Directorate had filed a case under PMLA based on a CBI FIR that alleged a multi-crore coal mining scam related to the Eastern Coalfields Ltd's mines in Bengal.

A land parcel worth Rs 6 crore in Kolkata has been attached by the Enforcement Directorate in connection with an illegal coal mining case in West Bengal, the central agency said on Saturday. The case was filed under criminal sections of the Prevention of Money Laundering Act by the agency after studying a November 2020 FIR of the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) that alleged a multi-crore coal pilferage scam related to the Eastern Coalfields Ltd's mines in the state's Kunustoria and Kajora areas in and around Asansol. Local state operative Anup Majhi alias Lala is alleged to be the prime suspect in the case. The Enforcement Directorate (ED) had claimed that the family of Trinamool Congress national general secretary and Diamond Harbour MP Abhishek Banerjee was a beneficiary of funds obtained from this illegal trade. Abhishek Banerjee is the nephew of West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee.