Kolkata/Asansol, Sep 7 (UNI) The CBI on Wednesday began searching properties of West Bengal Law Minister Moloy Ghatak, who allegedly skipped several summons from the federal investigation agency in the coal smuggling case, official sources said.
They said the simultaneous raids were being conducted by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) since Wednesday morning in this city and Asansol where properties, both movable and immovable, were purportedly owned by Ghatak. Some of the properties were said to be ancestral.
Sources hinted the minister was being interrogated by a special CBI team at the MLA hostel near Government Place, close to Raj Bhavan here.