CBI raids West Bengal minister Moloy Ghatak’s 3 houses in coal scam case

A team of CBI officials on Wednesday raided the three houses of West Bengal law minister Moloy Ghatak at Asansol in connection with the coal smuggling case.

Raids are being conducted in seven places across the state, including Asansol and Kolkata. Moloy Ghatak has earlier been questioned in connection with the case by ED.

Today’s raid comes at a time when several Trinamool leaders, including the party’s national general secretary Abhishek Banerjee, are on the radar of the central agencies. While sacked minister Partha Chatterjee is in jail in connection with the SSC scam, Anubrata Mondal was arrested by the CBI in the cattle smuggling case.

On Tuesday, Moloy Ghatak tweeted against Union home minister Amit Shah and said the country’s state of affairs is horrifying ‘under the watch of Mr Amit Shah,”