CBI raids house of SAIL employee

Kolkata: Officers of Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) conducted a raid at the house and offices of an attendant-cum-assistant (technical), security department of Steel Authority of India Limited (SAIL) at Burnpur in West Burdwan

on Wednesday. The central investigating agency had initiated a case against the official, Kapil Mondal, on charges of having a property which is "disproportionate to his known source of income".

According to the sources in CBI, the official has amassed assets to the tune of around Rs 1.38 crore during the period April 2009 to January 2017. The case was also started against Mondal's

wife and son.

After preliminary investigation, the CBI officers conducted a raid at the house and offices of Mondal at Kulti neat Burnpur in West Burdwan. During the search operation, police have recovered Rs 10 lakh cash from the house and office premises of Mondal. The investigating officers have also recovered a pistol with six live cartridges. CBI is carrying out further probe in

this connection.

It is learnt that the CBI officers have also gone through various documents in connection to this incident to reach the root of the incident.