Mamata’s backing makes Anubrata Mondal feel confident about his release in the near future.

Kolkata 9 September : In the wake of West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjees visit in his favor, Anubrata Mondal, the partys Birbhum district president, who was detained by the CBI on suspicion of being involved in the cattle smuggling fraud on Friday, stated that he was certain of being released soon.

"I am not a thief or a dacoit that I will remain behind bars for the rest of my life.Nobody spends their entire time behind bars.Therefore, I will be released shortly.

If didi is with me, its enough and I have nothing more to say." Mondal told news people.On a related note, on Thursday afternoon when she addressed an audience of workers and party leaders in Kolkatas Netaji Indoor Stadium, the chief minister made a plea to her partys employees from Birbhum to be prepared to take Mondal out of the prison with "the honor of being a hero".

On Friday afternoon Mondal was arraigned at a special court in Salt Lake in the northern outside of Kolkata in connection with an explosion case in Mangalkot in East Burdwan district which occurred in 2010 under the previous Left Front regime.The court, however, cleared Mondal of any charges in the matter on Friday.

"It is the triumph of truth and it has been confirmed that a fake case was filed against me in 2010,"" Mondal said after being exonerated.The court also cleared 14 other defendants in the case of the explosion.

Since the arrest of Mondal by the CBI the chief minister has claimed that Mondal was innocent.She has been in Mondals favor while distancing herself from the former West Bengal education minister and Trinamool Congress secretary general, Partha Chatterjee.

Chatterjee was detained by the Enforcement Directorate in connection with the multi-crore West Bengal School Service Commission (WBSSC) recruitment fraud.src/dp.