Coal smuggling case: CBI arrests 4 , ED calls Bengal Minister

Four top officers, including three former and one present general managers of the Eastern Coal Fields, were on Thursday arrested by the CBI in connection with the coal smuggling case.

Apart from the four top officers three lesser officials were also arrested in the case, sources said adding a designated Asansol court sent them to seven days’ CBI custody. According to sources the investigating agency has found these officials to be in constant touch with Anup Maji alias Lala one of the kingpins of the coal scam. A number of TMC leaders including party national general secretary Abhishek Banerjee were under CBI-ED scanner in the coal and cattle smuggling case.