TMC’s coal-belt mainstay, Bengal Law Minister Moloy Ghatak under CBI scanner

Wednesday, 7 September 2022newsdesk

Moloy Ghatak is the Trinamool Congress’s (TMC) strongman in the coal belt of Paschim Bardhaman district and has the final say on organisational matters in the region.

New Delhi, 07 September 2022

As per news report of The Indian Express, West Bengal’s Law Minister Moloy Ghatak on Wednesday became the latest ruling party leader to have his home raided by a central agency. The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) searched the minister’s three homes in Asansol and an apartment at the MLA hostel in Kolkata in connection with its inquiry into an alleged coal pilferage scam. The 66-year-old Ghatak is a third-generation advocate who practised law at Asansol court. He forayed into politics in 2001, getting elected on a TMC ticket from the former Hirapur Assembly constituency in the undivided Bardhaman district.

Source - The Indian Express