CBI accuses Trinamool leader in Bangladesh-India cattle smuggling case

India's Central Bureau of Investigation today filed a supplementary charge sheet in a case over cattle smuggling along the border with Bangladesh, reports our New Delhi correspondent.

A leader of West Bengal's ruling Trinamool Congress' youth wing and Kolkata-based businessman Binay Mishra is one of the accused in the case.

In the supplementary charge sheet filed before a special court in Asansol, the CBI has indicated Binay as absconding.

The CBI on February 18 had filed the main charge sheet in the case against BSF Commandant Satish Kumar and six others for their alleged involvement in a cattle smuggling racket operating on the India-Bangladesh border.

Besides Satish, the then Commandant of 36 Battalion of BSF, the CBI had filed charge-sheet against the smuggling network's alleged lynchpin Enamul Haque, Anarul Sheikh, Golam Mustafa, Taniya Sanyal, Badal Krishna Sanyal, and Rashida Bibi. 

The CBI alleged that Enamul was the mastermind of the illegal cattle trade and was assisted by two other accused in connection with Satish, who was posted in West Bengal's Murshidabad and Maldah districts bordering Bangladesh.

In January, the CBI had raided premises connected to Binay Mishra and had procured an arrest warrant against him.