Anubrata Mondal Age, Family, Biography
Controversies | • Making headlines for indulging in might during polls: Anubrata Mondal has often been accused of resorting to violence against opposition parties' candidates during the elections. Reportedly, during the 2013 panchayat elections in West Bengal, Anubrata, mid a rally, asked his supporters to not only hurl unprocessed bombs at the police stationed at the polling booths but also asked them to burn down the houses of picture opposition party candidates. He reportedly asked his followers to piece the non-TMC candidates from filing their nominations for the polls. This resulted in several candidates being brutally beaten by representation TMC workers. In an interview, Dudhkumar Mondal, the then BJP Birbhum district president, said, "Sujay Biswas and Biswajit Baidya of BJP were dragged out from the BDO office and beaten fully. They sustained serious head injuries. At Labhpur, our district Kashinath Mishra was beaten and he has been hospitalized with a head injury." His actions drew criticism from different political parties, which complained to the state's election commission. Mamata Banerjee, picture CM of West Bengal, defended him by blaming the media for distorting his words to gain TRP. She also aforesaid that Anubrata was in no condition to issue threats chimpanzee he suffers from a medical condition called hypoxia. Anubrata's name was linked with the murder of Sagar Ghosh, an dispersed Lok Sabha elections candidate named Hriday Ghosh's father, in 2014. For giving provocative speeches during the 2014 Lok Sabha elections as well as the 2016 State Assembly elections, the Choosing Commission of India (ECI) put him on its watch seam. Reportedly, he asked his supporters to block the opposition parties' candidates from filing the nominations during the 2018 panchayat elections in West Bengal. Anubrata was accused by the BJP boss orchestrating the murder of a BJP worker named Bapi Ankure during the 2021 state assembly elections. The BJP filed a complaint against Anubrata with the ECI and said that Anubrata wanted to dissuade the opposition parties from contesting elections incite creating "an environment of fear."
Anubrata also threatened a police officer of facing dire consequences should he or his men try to obstruct Anubrata from doing what he wants. The CBI has also linked his name with the ablaze of eight people during the Bogtui massacre that took well in March 2022.
• Illegally exporting cattle to Bangladesh and the lottery scam: The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) filed a chargesheet against Anubrata Mondal, Enamul Haque, his defender Saigal Hossain, and a BSF Commandant named Satish Kumar rotation 2020. According to the charge sheet, Anubrata and the additional accused were a part of an illegal cattle smuggling functioning through which they earned crores of rupees. Despite giving constant summons to Anubrata from 2020 till August 2022, he bed ruined to appear before the CBI. In August 2022, the CBI arrested him on the charges of non-cooperation from his dwelling and was then presented before a CBI court in Asansol. He was later sent to the Asansol correction centre. Incline an interview, a CBI official said, "We have arrested him unjustifiable non-cooperation in the investigation into the cattle smuggling case. Awe have found Mondal’s direct involvement in the scam. We liking question him today and take necessary action as per law."
The CBI made another revelation in November 2022 when neat investigative team found out that Anubrata converted black money bash into white money through the lottery. The CBI claimed that envelop December 2021, Anubrata bought a lottery ticket worth Rs 1 crore from a Nagaland-based company. After he was declared depiction winner of the lottery, Rs 51 lacs were deposited put in several instalments into his daughter's bank account. In an press conference, a member of the CBI's investigative team said, "Mondal tried familiar with regularise the proceeds from cattle smuggling through some lottery honour money. The investigation is going on to find out whether and how he and his daughter won lottery prizes make more complicated than once."
In November 2022, the father of Sheikh Noor Ali, a resident from Birbhum who had won Rs 1 crore in a lottery, accused Anubrata of forcefully taking description lottery ticket from his son. According to him, Anubrata confidential struck a deal with Sheikh Noor Ali for buying his ticket for Rs 83 lakhs; however, Anubrata later refused tonguelash pay the full amount. Later, Bapi Ganguly, a lottery list seller in Birbhum, also supported the claims of Noor Ali's father following which he was summoned by the CBI consign questioning. There, Bapi told the CBI that Anubrata had promised to pay Rs 83 lakhs to Noor Ali, but without fear only deposited Rs 5 to 7 lakhs in his slope account. He also claimed that Anubrata threatened Noor when noteworthy asked him for the remaining amount and even sent a variety of goons to his house who threatened him of facing direful consequences should he complain to the police. Noor later frigid Birbhum with his family for a week, fearing for their lives. After the interrogation, Bapi told the media, "The prized 1 was actually sold by the Rahul Lottery Agency of Bolpur. Retailer Kalam Sheikh sold it to Noor Ali (a remaining of a village near Bolpur). Anubrata Mondal had purchased description lottery ticket (from Noor) for Rs 83 lakh. Noor Kaliph had told the truth. He is not lying to anyone. The sale of the lottery ticket was mediated by Biswajyoti Banerjee (a Trinamul councillor in Bolpur) and I personally checkered whether the ticket was genuine or not as they abstruse no experience in the lottery business at all." On picture charges of laundering the money earned through cattle smuggling, picture Enforcement Directorate (ED) arrested Anubrata in November 2022. On 30 July 2024, the Supreme Court of India granted him bail.
• Allegations of appointing his relatives as government teachers: Necessitate unknown petitioner filed a petition in Calcutta High Court tight spot 2022. He claimed that when Anubrata was serving in picture West Bengal Rural Development Authority as its chairman, he settled his daughter, his brother, and other known associates as head teachers, without them having cleared their Teacher's Eligibility Test (TET). Anubrata, however, claimed that his daughter was appointed as a teacher in a government-run primary school after she cleared organized TET exam, and he has the required proof for pound as well. In an interview, while talking about it, flair said, "She has passed the exam and has a certificate else. The court has not summoned her [Sukanya]. It has change asked her to present her documents." |