Kolkata, Apr 4 (UNI) The Enforcement Directorate (ED) probing the money trails in the coal smuggling case has arrested Bankura police station IC Ashoke Mishra, accused of his involvement in the crime, said to be a relative of absconding TMC leader Vinay Mishra.
The central investigation agency has some evidence that the police officer had helped the prime accused in facilitating transportation of smuggling coal and cattle heads from Bengal to elsewhere.
The ED has taken the police officer to its headquarters in Delhi and interrogated him.
The police officer was quizzed a number of times before his arrest.
Meanwhile, the other central agency CBI in a fresh summon asked the coal scam prime accused Anup Maghi alias Lala to appear in its city office on Monday.
Mr Majhi was quizzed by the CBI for about 7 hours early this week.
Armed with a court order prohibiting any arrest or detention, coal smuggling scam prime accused
Anup Majhi on March 30 had appeared before the CBI investigation officials at Nizal Palace.
The CBI has been in the lookout for Majhi since November last as the agency believed that he has connection with the high ups of his alleged illegal business of unearthing from PSUs abandoned mines and smuggled out to different locations across India.
The money could be in thousands of crores and many get shares from the funds of coal scams.
Chunks of funds had been transacted through the hawala route for which the Enforcement
Directorate (ED) also began its probe on the money trails.
The CBI after failing to get the accused for interrogation, issued a look out notice and raided
several locations of Majhi's office premises, residences and other properties in Asansol, Ranigunj and Kolkata.
The Supreme Court recently in an order said that Anup Majhi alias Lala could not be arrested until April 6 following an appeal.
The CBI probing the scam also interrogated TMC MP Abhishek Banerjee's sister-in-law Maneka Gambhir and her husband and father-in-law in connection with the coal scam.
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