The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) has filed its first chargesheet in the multi-crore coal smuggling case implicating for now 41 persons that include some top Eastern Coal Fields Limited (ECL) officials, and a former State-level Trinamool Congress leader.
The names of TMC national general secretary and Abhishek Banerjee and his wife Rujira Narula Banerjee however do not figure in the chargesheet. The duo have been questioned by the CBI and Enforcement Directorate on several occasions in the case.
The 41 individuals include Anup Maji alias Lala a local businessman the main mastermind who has allegedly amassed wealth to the tune of several hundred crore,