Cattle smuggling case: Anubrata’s daughter not cooperating in probe: CBI

“Like Anubrata Mondal, his daughter also did not cooperate with the CBI. She refused to talk to our officers who visited her residence stating that she was depressed due to the death of her mother and jailing of her father,” the officer said.

A four-member team including a woman officer had gone to Mondal’s Nichupatti residence here as a part of the probe, but left within 10 minutes after Sukanya refused to talk to them.

The CBI officer said that the agency was trying to find out how Sukanya Mondal could accumulate so much wealth despite being a primary school teacher.

“Sukanya Mondal has several properties registered under her name. She is also the director of a couple of companies. We will seek details of her income as a school teacher. There are several discrepancies and many questions need to be answered,” he told PTI.

Earlier in the day, the CBI questioned the arrested TMC leader’s accountant Manish Kothari for over two hours at its temporary camp office here, the officer said.

The agency also grilled two officials of a bank where the TMC leader has several bank accounts, he said.

The CBI suspects that several bank accounts belonging to Mondal’s daughter were used for financial transactions in the scam, he added.

Meanwhile, Sukanya Mandal will appear in the Calcutta High Court on Thursday following the a summons from a single bench. Sukanya is likely to be accompanied by her lawyer Sanjeev Dan. Incidentally, Sanjeev is also Anubrata’s lawyer.

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A case was filed recently in the high court alleging that Sukanya got a job as a primary school teacher without appearing for the TET. A lawyer, Firdous Shamim, raised this complaint with an additional affidavit in the court. Soon after, a single bench of Justice Abhijit Gangopadhyay summoned Sukanya.

Firdaus also claimed that apart from Sukanya, a total of six people close to the Trinamool leader who got jobs without appearing for TET.

Meanwhile, CBI has traced fixed deposits amounting to nearly Rs. 16.97 crore in the name of Anubrata Mondal and his family members  as part of  investigation of a case related to alleged illegal cross- border trade of cattle.