Coal Scam
Bengal police officer held in coal scam
New Delhi/IBNS: The Enforcement Directorate (ED) on Sunday arrested the Inspector-in-Charge (IC) of West Bengal's Bankura Police Station, Ashok Kumar Mishra, in connection with its ongoing probe into an illegal coal mining scam, officials said.
According to sources in the ED, the Central agency had summoned the inspector-rank official of West Bengal Police force, who is a close relative of absconding Trinamool Congress (TMC) youth leader Vinay Mishra, and during interrogation at ED office in New Delhi, Ashok Mishra was arrested.
ED investigators claimed that the police officer was directly involved with the Bengal-based illegal coal mining and smuggling racket and he used to work as a linkman.
Meanwhile, one of the key accused in the scam, businessman Anoop Majhi alias Lala, who has been granted an interim stay order on his arrest by the Supreme Court till Apr 6, was quizzed twice by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI).
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