The CBI on Wednesday filed a supplementary chargesheet in the cattle-smuggling case naming Trinamul youth congress leader Vinay Mishra.
The chargesheet submitted to the special CBI court in Asansol said Mishra was absconding. The first chargesheet submitted to the court on February 8 had named Enamul Haque, a Murshidabad businessman, as the mastermind.
“The supplementary chargesheet reveals the involvement of the accused in the cattle smuggling case with specific evidence. Mishra has been booked under different sections of the IPC, including criminal conspiracy and cheating,” said a senior officer of the CBI. “We can’t divulge the details of the chargesheet though.”
The CBI had taken over the probe on September 21 last year. In the February-8 chargesheet, the CBI had named Satish Kumar, a BSF commandant, among the seven accused in the case.
Besides Kumar and Haque, several others believed to be close to the duo — like Anarul Seikh, Golam Mustafa, Taniya Sanyal, Badal Krishna Sanyal and Rashida Bibi — were also named in the chargesheet.
The CBI claimed that Haque was the mastermind of the illegal cattle trade and was assisted by two other accused in connivance with Kumar, who was then deployed in Murshidabad and Malda zone as the BSF commandant.