Big blow to Mamata Banerjee! TMC's Anubrata Mondal sent to 14-day custody

Anubrata Mondal has been sent to jail custody by the CBI Special Court. He was arrested by the probe agency earlier this month for his alleged involvement in the multi-crore cattle smuggling scam.

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Kolkata: Trinamool Congress Birbhum district president Anubrata Mondal has been sent to 14-day jail custody by the CBI Special Court in the cattle smuggling case. Mondal was arrested by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) in connection with the cattle smuggling scam.\

#UPDATE | TMC Birbhum district president Anubrata Mondal sent to 14-day jail custody by the CBI Special Court in the cattle smuggling case.#WestBengal https://t.co/zsh9Q7sfiU — ANI (@ANI) August 24, 2022

Earlier, Mondal had said he wanted a CBI probe into a threat letter against a judge of Asansol special CBI court who is hearing the alleged cattle smuggling case against him. Asansol special CBI court judge Rajesh Chakraborty wrote to Paschim Bardhaman district judge on Monday requesting him to take note of the "threat" and bring it to the notice of the Registrar, Judicial Service, of the Calcutta High Court.
"I want to request the judge to order a CBI investigation into it," Mondal said in reply to questions by reporters about the threat letter while he was being taken to the Asansol special CBI court for production.

A letter threatening to implicate his family members in NDPS case of commercial quantity if Mondal is not released on bail soon was sent to the officer-in-charge of the court, judge Chakraborty wrote to the district judge.

"Mamata Banerjee has done a lot," Mondal had said when asked whether he wants to send any message to the chief minister. Banerjee, at a public meeting on August 14 in Kolkata, had stood by Mondal, asking what he had done to be arrested by the CBI. She had alleged that agencies are being used to malign whom they want to. CBI is probing a cattle smuggling case, in connection with which it has made a number of arrests, including Mondal on August 11.

Meanwhile, the opposition leaders have ridiculed Mondal`s expression of gratitude towards the chief minister. State Congress president and Lok Sabha member, Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury said that it was natural for Mondal to be elated at the chief minister`s support towards him, especially after the party has shunned Partha Chatterjee for the latter`s alleged involvement in the WBSSC recruitment irregularities scam. "The chief minister is Mondal's only hope now and so he is so delighted at her support," Chowdhury said.