ED summons BJD MLA over links with criminals

Bhubaneswar May 4 (IANS) The Enforcement Directorate has directed Biju Janata Dal (BJD) MLA Pranab Balabantaray to appear for quesioning on May 7 on his alleged links with arrested gangster brothers Sushil and Sushant Dhal Samant.

The Dharmasala MLA s transport company Pranab Minerals and Transport is under the ED scanner over business and financial transactions with the two brothers ED sources said.

The MLA has been asked to furnish all documents and audit reports of his company from 2005 to 2010 the sources added.

The two brothers were arrested in January 2016 for alleged involvement in several murders extortion firearms racket and tender-fixing in the state.

Earlier Cuttack Municipal Corporation s BJD councillor Ranjita Biswal was arrested for her alleged links with the gangster brothers.

--IANS
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