File photo of TMC leader Anubrata Mandal being produced before a special CBI court in a cattle smuggling case in Asansol. A Delhi court had on May 1 reserved its order on Mr Mandal’s plea seeking his transfer from Tihar Jail to West Bengal in a money laundering case. , Photo Credit: PTI
A Delhi court on May 1 reserved its order on a plea filed by TMC leader Anubrata Mondal, arrested in a money laundering case related to alleged cattle smuggling along the India-Bangladesh border, seeking his transfer from Tihar Central Jail in New Delhi to Asansol Reformatory was demanded. house in West Bengal.
Special Judge Raghubir Singh said the order would be pronounced on May 4. The judge also extended the term Mr. Mandal’s judicial custody Till then.
Mondal was produced in the courtroom on a wheelchair by Tihar Jail officials.
Nitesh Rana, special public prosecutor for the Enforcement Directorate, opposed Mr Mondal’s plea, saying a West Bengal court, which is probing a case CBI is probing the matterCan call the accused whenever necessary.
The ED had brought Mandal to Delhi after arresting them in a money laundering case.
TMC’s Birbhum district president and a close aide of West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee was earlier arrested by the CBI in a corruption case.