West Bengal. The Enforcement Directorate (ED), probing the multi-crore cattle smuggling scam in West Bengal, had summoned Sukanya Mandal, daughter of Trinamool Congress stalwart Anubrata Mandal, for questioning. According to information received from ED sources, it is being told that Sukanya Mandal has been arrested. Let us tell you that Sukanya’s father Anubrata Mandal was arrested by Eden on November 17 last year.
Sukanya Mandal, daughter of Trinamool Congress strongman Anubrata Mandal, arrested in West Bengal’s famous cattle smuggling case, has been arrested by the ED in Delhi today after a long interrogation. According to the information, ED had summoned Sukanya Mandal for questioning in Delhi. The ED was trying to find out from Sukanya, a teacher by profession, whether her accounts were used in the cattle smuggling case. How did they suddenly get so much money in their accounts. There are many other questions which the ED wanted to know from him.
CBI has also interrogated Sukanya
In the animal smuggling case in Bengal, on 23 September 2022, the CBI also reached the house of jailed Trinamool Congress leader Anubrata Mandal in Nichupatti area of Bolpur. A CBI team interrogated his daughter Sukanya Mandal in a cattle smuggling case. It is being told that there was also a woman officer in the three-member team. The investigating officer stayed at the house for about an hour. The team also visited a nearby post office. Sukanya Mandal is a shareholder in a rice mill owned by her father.
CBI officials visited the rice mill and seized some vehicles. Mandal was arrested by the CBI on August 11 in the cattle smuggling case and is currently lodged in jail. During the investigation, the CBI also got information about one of the rice mills, ‘Bhole Bam Rice Mill’. Shyamal Mandal, the former owner of the said rice mill, was called to the temporary camp office of the CBI for questioning, where he was questioned on Friday.
