ECL official dies during CBI raid in coal-smuggling racket case (2nd Ld)

Kolkata, Nov 28 : Even as the CBI raided 45 locations across West Bengal, Uttar Pradesh, Bihar and Jharkhand on Saturday in connection with a coal-smuggling racket, a security official of Eastern Coalfields Ltd (ECL) died during a search operation at his residence.
Deceased Dhananjay Roy was posted as a Security Inspector at the state-run firm in Kunustoria area in Raniganj in West Bengal’s Pashchim Bardhaman district.
Niladri Roy, Secretary to the ECL Chairman, said that Roy fell sick when the search operation by the CBI was going on this morning. “He started feeling ill during the CBI questioning and was immediately taken to the hospital where he died,” said Hareram Singh, an INTTUC trade leader at ECL.
The marathon search operation was carried out by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) Anti-Corruption Branch officials — who were divided into 22 teams — at 45 places in various districts of the four states.
According to sources, CBI officials also raided the office and homes of Anup Majhi, alias Lala, in Asansol, Durgapur, and Raniganj in Burdwan district, as well as Bishnupur in Kolkata’s adjoining South 24-Parganas district.
They also carried out the search operation in Kolkata’s Shakespeare Sarani, CIT Road, Salt Lake and other places. As many as 30 different locations were raided across West Bengal on Saturday.