CBI raids at ECL official’s residence and office and CISF office and quarters at Asansol and Farakka

Kolkata : The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI), probing the multi-crore rupees of coal smuggling scam, on Thursday conducted raids in some locations of two districts of West Bengal, including a high official of the ECL in Asansol and CISF camps/office in Murshidabad’s thermal power project at Farakka.

Sources having knowledge on the latest raids by the CBI, which is investigating coal smuggling, said the central probe agency officials have raided the office and residence of a top official of the Eastern Coalfields Ltd, a subsidiary of Coal India Ltd, at its Asansol office and residence in West Bardhaman.

They said the raids were on at the office and residence of the ECL top official.

The CBI also raided the office of the CISF official and his residence at Farakka’s thermal power project.

This was the first time that the CBI was raiding locations of CISF official camp offices and quarters.

A separate report from Haldia in East Medinipur said the CBI is expected to interrogate TMC leader from Nandigram Sheikh Sufian in the death of BJP leader Debobrata Maity later on Thursday.

The CBI, probing the post-poll violence following a Calcutta high order last month had visited several times at Nandigram.

In the first week of this month and there the agency officials told the TMC leader to appear at its camp office in Haldia.

Sheikh Sufian was the chief election agent of Mamata Banerjee at Nandigram, where the chief minister lost to BJP candidate Suvendu Adhikari.

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