Kolkata, Aug 11 (FN Agency) The Enforcement Directorate (ED), probing the money trails in the coal trafficking scam of Eastern Coalfield Ltd at Asansol in West Bengal, on Thursday summoned eight senior IPS officers, including former city Police Commissioner Rajiv Mishra, to report the ED’s investigation officials in New Delhi between August 22-31, 2022, official sources said. The summon happened on a day when the CBI, probing the cattle trafficking scandal in Bengal, arrested ruling Trinamool Congress leader Anubrata Mondal from his Birbhum house on Thursday morning. Mondal was reportedly taken to a CBI designated court at Asansol for judicial process, other sources said. The ED has filed an FIR in the coal smuggling case and hence summoned the IPS officers on separate dates to its national headquarters, sources said.
The summon notice issued to IPS officers – Gyanwant Singh on August 22, Koteswar Rao on August 23, Shyam Singh on August 24, Selva Murugan on August 25, Rajiv Mishra on August 26, Sukesh Jain on August 29 and Tathagata Bose on August 31. Sources said some of the IPS officers were already quizzed by the ED in the case. The ED, also probing the money trails of West Bengal school service commission’s alleged irregular appointments of teaching and non teaching staff, last month arrested former education minister Partha Chatterjee and his aide Arpita Mukherjee after the federal probe agency found over Rs 50 cash from Mukherjee two flats in the city and its outskirts.