Coal smuggling case: ED summons 8 West Bengal IPS officers

India

oi-Deepika S

Kolkata, Aug 11:
The
Enforcement
Directorate
(ED)
has
summoned
eight
senior
police
officers
of
West
Bengal
to
New
Delhi
for
questioning
in
the
coal
smuggling
case.

Among
the
IPS
officers
summoned
by
the
central
agency
were
Gyanwant
Singh
(ADG,
CID),
Koteswara
Rao,
S
Selvamurugan,
Shyam
Singh,
Rajeev
Mishra,
Sukesh
Kumar
Jain
and
Tathagata
Basu,
officials
told
PTI.

The
IPS
officers
have
been
given
specific
dates
to
appear
before
the
ED
at
its
New
Delhi
office,
they
added.

“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,”
the
ED
official
said.

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Raut
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to
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Seven
of
these
eight
officers
were
summoned
by
the
ED
last
year
as
well.

A
case
was
registered
in
September
2020
alleging
that
ECL
employees
and
officials
of
the
Central
Industrial
Security
Force
(CISF),
railway
department
and
unknown
others
had
fraudulently
misappropriated
coal
from
the
coal
reserves
of
the
leasehold
areas
under
the
ECL.
They
had
also
allegedly
taken
coal
from
the
coal
stock
parked
in
the
railway
sidings
for
sale
and
supply.