Mamata’s solidarity makes Mondal non-cooperative: CBI sources

Kolkata:  After Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee’s expression of solidarity, Trinamool Congress leader Anubrata Mondal has gone on a total non-cooperation mode in the multi- crore cattle smuggling scam, which is being probed by the CBI.
Mondal was arrested by the CBI on August 12.
The chief minister at a programme on Sunday gave a clear message that her sympathy and support towards the party’s Birbhum district president continues even after his arrest by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) sleuths in the scam.
On Monday after Mondal was informed about the chief minister’s stand by his counsel, following which he heaved a sigh of relief and also informed the mediapersons through his counsel that he was confident that the “supreme leader would be beside him in this moment of crisis”.
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Source said that the extent of non- cooperation was such that Mondal has even claimed to the investigating officers that his interaction with his erstwhile bodyguard, Sehgal Hossain, also in custody in connection to the same scam, was limited and totally formal.