The Enforcement Directorate (ED) has reportedly issued summons to eight IPS officers, including Gyanwant Singh, Koteswara Rao, S Selvamurugan, Shyam Singh, Rajeev Mishra, Sukesh Kumar Jain, and Tathagata Basu, in connection with the West Bengal coal scam case. The probe agency asked the officers to join its investigation in New Delhi.
News agency PTI reported that the IPS officers have been given specific dates to appear before the ED. The IPS officers are from West Bengal, and they could be questioned between August 21 and August 31, news agency ANI reported.
“These IPS officers played crucial roles in the coal smuggling case. There is evidence that these officers benefited from the scam. All of them were posted in areas where the smuggling happened,” PTI quoted an ED official as saying.
