The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) has today arrested then GM (now retired) Pandaveswar Area, Eastern Coalfields Limited Subhas Kumar Mukhopadhyay in an on-going investigation of a case.
It was alleged that the accused had obtained undue advantage in the form of regular cash amount as bribe from the private person (named in FIR) and facilitated misappropriation of coal from ECL leasehold area & corresponding railway siding and thereby extended undue protection & patronage to the illegal coal syndicate being run by said private person.
A case was registered on 27.11.2020 on the allegations that the public servants of ECL including security personnel, private person and unknown officials including of CISF, Railway, other departments & unknown others entered into conspiracy during May, 2020 & onwards and in pursuance of the said conspiracy, they fraudulently misappropriated coal from the coal reserve of leasehold areas under the dominion of ECL and also from the coal stock parked in the Railway sidings for sale and supply.
Earlier, CBI had also conducted searches at various places including in the States of West Bengal, Jharkhand, Bihar & UP etc. at the premises of accused persons.
The arrested accused will be produced tomorrow before the Special Court at Asansol.
