The Enforcement Directorate (ED) has arrested West Bengal police officer Ashok Mishra in a case of coal pilferage, agency officials said on Sunday.
Mishra, the inspector in charge of Bankura police station for the past three years, was arrested on Saturday night.
Sources said the EC summoned the officer for questioning and then arrested him. He is allegedly close to the scam’s suspected kingpin Anup Majhi alias Lala, and is accused of being involved in financial transactions with coal smugglers. Majhi is scheduled to appear before the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) on Monday for questioning.
