ASANSOL/KOLKATA: The Enforcement Directorate is set to move the Calcutta High Court for permission to take Trinamool Birbhum president Anubrata Mandal’s former security guard to Delhi for questioning in the cattle smuggling case.
ED officers took the decision after the Asansol CBI court turned down the plea to transport Saigal Hossain after his arrest by the agency a day earlier.
ED had in August moved the Rouse Avenue District Court in Delhi seeking to take the accused in custody and question him in the national capital.
Hossain was in CBI’s custody before the Asansol court remanded him in judicial custody. The court had on September 29 granted ED permission to question him in jail.
A four-member ED team – including two officers from Delhi – went to Asansol jail on Friday morning to interrogate Hossain on alleged assets his family had amassed over the past few years. They arrested him for not cooperating with the probe.
ED officers took the decision after the Asansol CBI court turned down the plea to transport Saigal Hossain after his arrest by the agency a day earlier.
ED had in August moved the Rouse Avenue District Court in Delhi seeking to take the accused in custody and question him in the national capital.
Hossain was in CBI’s custody before the Asansol court remanded him in judicial custody. The court had on September 29 granted ED permission to question him in jail.
A four-member ED team – including two officers from Delhi – went to Asansol jail on Friday morning to interrogate Hossain on alleged assets his family had amassed over the past few years. They arrested him for not cooperating with the probe.
