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ECL official dies during CBI raid in coal-smuggling racket case
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SME Times News Bureau | 28 Nov, 2020
Even as the CBI raided 45 locations across West Bengal, Uttar Pradesh,
Bihar and Jharkhand on Saturday in connection with a coal-smuggling
racket, a security official of Eastern Coalfields Ltd (ECL) died during a
search operation at his residence.
Deceased Dhananjay Roy was
posted as a Security Inspector at the state-run firm in Kunustoria area
in Raniganj in West Bengal's Pashchim Bardhaman district.
Niladri
Roy, Secretary to the ECL Chairman, said that Roy fell sick when the
search operation by the CBI was going on this morning. "He started
feeling ill during the CBI questioning and was immediately taken to the
hospital where he died," said Hareram Singh, an INTTUC trade leader at
ECL.
The marathon search operation was carried out by the Central
Bureau of Investigation (CBI) Anti-Corruption Branch officials -- who
were divided into 22 teams -- at 45 places in various districts of the
four states.
According to sources, CBI officials also raided the
office and homes of Anup Majhi, alias Lala, in Asansol, Durgapur, and
Raniganj in Burdwan district, as well as Bishnupur in Kolkata's
adjoining South 24-Parganas district.
They also carried out the
search operation in Kolkata's Shakespeare Sarani, CIT Road, Salt Lake
and other places. As many as 30 different locations were raided across
West Bengal on Saturday.
The agency had registered a case against
Majhi and other unidentified people on Friday, including some employees
of the ECL and other central government offices. It was alleged that
Majhi was involved in the theft of coal from leasehold mines of ECL in
Kunustoria and Kajora areas.
Sources said that the CBI searches
were conducted in some of the houses of Majhi's associates too. Majhi is
the alleged kingpin of the illegal coal operations at open-cast
colliery belts along the Bengal-Jharkhand border.
Earlier, the
CBI had also cracked down on a cattle smuggling racket operating in West
Bengal and arrested its alleged kingpin Enamul Haq, a resident of
Murshidabad district.
Enamul is currently out on interim bail
after he tested positive for Covid-19. A Border Security Force (BSF)
officer linked to cattle-smuggling activities was also arrested in the
case.
The CBI officials reportedly found connections between Majhi and Enamul after conducting raids on their properties.
Earlier,
the Kolkata Police's Detective Department had arrested Chartered
Accountant Govind Agarwal. His interrogation revealed that he was also
allegedly involved with many influential people, including
cattle-smuggling kingpin Enamul and coal mafia Majhi, and he used to
audit their financial accounts.
Police sources said that Agarwal
was also allegedly involved in reinvesting their ill-gotten money in
many shell companies and channel their money back into white income
sources through fraudulent means.
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