ED, police & jail given Anubrata shift task

 Court told correctional home authorities that if Mondal’s health examination report were satisfactory, they would hand him over to ED

Anubrata Mondal, File picture

Abhijeet Chatterjee   |   TT  |  Durgapur   |  07.03.23 : A special CBI court in Asansol on Monday distributed responsibilities among Bengal police, Asansol correctional home authorities and the Enforcement Directorate for taking Trinamul Congress leader Anubrata Mondal to Delhi on transit remand via Calcutta.

Judge Rajesh Chakraborty told the Asansol prison authorities to take Mondal to any Centre-run hospital in Calcutta and asked the Asansol-Durgapur police commissionerate to arrange for adequate police personnel with Mondal to ensure his security during the 200km road journey.

The court told the correctional home authorities that if Mondal’s health examination report were satisfactory, they would hand him over to ED officials in Calcutta.

The court ordered that the ED officials would take Mondal to Delhi by air, with medical officers on board, after the health examination was completed and he was found physically fit, as directed by Calcutta High Court.

Mondal had not been taken to Delhi on Sunday as scheduled as the police and the ED had refused to take responsibility for his security during the journey.

Mondal, who was arrested by the CBI in a multi-crore cattle-smuggling case, is currently lodged in the Asansol jail.

On Monday, the Asansol correctional home authorities took up with the special CBI court — where the cattle smuggling case is sub judice — the complications involved in taking Mondal to Delhi after both Delhi and Calcutta high courts had refused a stay on the move.

The Asansol-Durgapur police, which refused to provide protection for taking Mondal to Delhi on Sunday, told the court on Monday that the requisition for police personnel for the leader had not been properly communicated to them by the prison authorities, following which the complication had arisen. 

Sources said Mondal would probably be taken to Calcutta on Tuesday morning and the necessary arrangements were being made.