Racket of cattle smuggling in Bengal – CBI arrests leader of Trinamool Congress

CBI arrests a Trinamool Congress leader of Birbhum district in Bengal. He is Anubrata Mondal and is suspected of having links to a cattle smuggling racket. It seems the nexus includes senior BSF officers, other politicians and officials of the local administration. The state Criminal Investigation Department CID has already nabbed a person on charges of coal smuggling. That was on July 22 and investigation revealed his links to the cattle smuggling racket. This smuggling operation was in and around Basirhat in North 24 Parganas district. He had an accomplice who operated in other districts of Malda and Murshidabad. The money involved in cattle smuggling was in the range of Rs 1,500-2,000 crore and persons at various levels received pay offs. The list included politicians, police, administration and BSF officers. Cattle smuggling racket that TMC's Anubrata Mondal was involved in had a deep nexus.

The Border Security Force BSF had informed the Union Home Ministry about the extent of smuggling on the India-Bangladesh border. The BSF also shared a list of officers suspected to be involved in the racket. The CBI and ED arrested two of them in January 2018 and April 2022. Court martial proceedings are also initiated against two other BSF officers since April 2019. During interrogation, the name of a minister’s son, who is an MLA in UP surfaced. He is believed to be a beneficiary of the proceeds of cattle smuggling. As an official of the BSF admitted - “The illegal enterprise was most rampant between 2014 and 2019 when the politician-BSF-police nexus made windfall gains.”

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Crime does not pay and this has been proved yet again when CBI sleuths finally caught up with a fraudster who had been evading the Law for nearly a decade. He was staying in the holy place of Badrinath under the guise of a baba called Durgesh Maharaj.
This has been reported in zeenews.india.com dated 6 July 2015.

The fraud baba was, in his earlier avatar, a common postal agent and had duped people of Rs 2.63 crore by selling forged Kisan Vikas Patras. These are government sureties sold through the post offices.
The man was a resident of Madhubani and had settled in Kolkata with his wife and kids in search of greener postures somewhere in 1990s. He began working as agent for postal instruments like Kisan Vikas Patra etc. In Kolkata, he came in contact with a postal assistant and with one more accomplice he allegedly issued 263 forged Kisan Vikas Patra worth Rs 2.63 crore.
Since the instruments were forgeries, the money collected from gullible investors was pocketed by the trio. (Image courtesy wikimediacommons.org)

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#NepaliGirls #Dubai #IGIAirport A racket of organized trafficking of Nepali girls to Dubai through New Delhi airport has been unearthed by the CBI – it could be just the tip of the iceberg because rough estimates indicate a figure of between 6000 to 8000 girls aged between 20 and 30 who have become victims till December 2014.
It was a multi-agency international operation and was spearheaded by Central Bureau of Investigation – the girls were sent to Dubai for alleged prostitution and the transit point was Delhi's IGI airport for their travelling to the gulf country.
The agency has informed the ministry of external affairs, ministry of home affairs, bureau of immigration and Nepal authorities through Interpol about the organized syndicate, which sends the girls on tourist visas.
The sources said during the inquiry which was being covertly conducted by the agency, probe officers collected information from Foreign Regional Registration Office, Air India, Qatar Airways, Bureau of Immigration and 15 travel agents based in Delhi.
CBI has informed the ministry of external affairs, ministry of home affairs, bureau of immigration and Nepal authorities through Interpol about the organized syndicate, which sends the girls on tourist visas. They are given tickets, provided visa and hotel reservation in Nairobi via Dubai for tourist purposes but, once they reach Dubai, their tickets for Nairobi and hotel bookings are cancelled and they are trapped.