A special CBI court in West Burdwan’s Asansol on Thursday remanded seven ECL officials, including one general manager and three former general managers who were arrested on Wednesday in connection with the coal smuggling case, to five days’ custody of the central investigating agency.
The CBI brought them to Asansol on Thursday morning from the state CBI headquarters at Nizam Palace in Calcutta where they were kept after arrests late on Wednesday.
Those were arrested include ECL general manager Subhash C. Moitro, three retired general managers Sushanta Banerjee, Abhijit Mullick and Tanmay Das, manager Mukesh Kumar and security officers Debasish Mukherjee and Rinku Behera.