ECL official dies during CBI raid in coal-smuggling racket case

KOLKATA: 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. (IANS)

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