TMC MP Dev appears before CBI sleuths in connection with cattle smuggling case
India Today
Dev's name had surfaced several times during interrogation of those accused in the case, the source in the Central Bureau of Investigation said.
Trinamool Congress MP and actor Deepak Adhikari, who is popularly known by his screen name Dev, appeared before CBI sleuths here on Tuesday to face interrogation in connection with the central agency's probe into a multi-crore cattle smuggling racket operating along the India-Bangladesh border in West Bengal, a source said.
Dev's name had surfaced several times during interrogation of those accused in the case, the source in the Central Bureau of Investigation said.
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"Dev has appeared before our officials at the Nizam Palace office here as he was summoned in connection with the cattle smuggling case. He is being questioned," the source said.
The CBI had earlier interrogated several persons, including Bikash Mishra, brother of Binay Mishra, a businessman allegedly involved in the racket and considered close to the West Bengal’s ruling Trinamool Congress.
The agency had also questioned Enamul Haque, the prime accused of the case.
Both Bikash Mishra and Haque were taken to CBI custody, and the latter was recently granted bail by the Supreme Court.
