KOLKATA: In a pressure against unaccounted-for money flow prior to the elections, the CID on Saturday seized Rs 40 lakh from Bhowanipore. The money belonged to a businessman from Baltikuri in Howrah, CID said.
“We had leads on money exchanging hands at Bhowanipore. We raided a couple of places on Saturday and performed the seizure. We believe this money was once intended to be used in the upcoming elections. We have shaped 11 groups to probe this link,” a senior officer said.
The directorate of income intelligence additionally gave out details about its raids between March 25 and 28, throughout which over 16kg gold was once seized. The consignment was once to be smuggled to Myanmar through Manipur, he said. The first raid was once performed on a Sudder Street lodge, the place two suspects, Mahesh Rai and Rita Maisdek, had been arrested with 5kg gold, worth Rs 1.65 crore. Later, every other 3kg gold was once found throughout a raid at Salt Lake, and 3 individuals — Raju Dutta, Chiranjit Dutta and Suman Saha — had been arrested. An afternoon later, yet one more raid at Burrabazar ended in the seizure of 8kg gold.
Kolkata Police additionally recovered 20 crude bombs from Habaken Depot in the Port house round 9.30pm on Friday.
Sources said commissioner Anuj Sharma had requested law enforcement officials to accentuate operations to get well illegal weapons, ammunition and bombs. “We were prompt to note down main points of every political rally prematurely and send daily experiences to Lalbazar. All model code of behavior violations must be indexed and recorded on video,” an officer said.
The police persevered its pressure to spherical up infamous criminals and on Friday, arrested Beniapukur residents Sk Haroon Rashid and Sk Hashim, who have several circumstances of extortion against them.
“We had leads on money exchanging hands at Bhowanipore. We raided a couple of places on Saturday and performed the seizure. We believe this money was once intended to be used in the upcoming elections. We have shaped 11 groups to probe this link,” a senior officer said.
The directorate of income intelligence additionally gave out details about its raids between March 25 and 28, throughout which over 16kg gold was once seized. The consignment was once to be smuggled to Myanmar through Manipur, he said. The first raid was once performed on a Sudder Street lodge, the place two suspects, Mahesh Rai and Rita Maisdek, had been arrested with 5kg gold, worth Rs 1.65 crore. Later, every other 3kg gold was once found throughout a raid at Salt Lake, and 3 individuals — Raju Dutta, Chiranjit Dutta and Suman Saha — had been arrested. An afternoon later, yet one more raid at Burrabazar ended in the seizure of 8kg gold.
Kolkata Police additionally recovered 20 crude bombs from Habaken Depot in the Port house round 9.30pm on Friday.
Sources said commissioner Anuj Sharma had requested law enforcement officials to accentuate operations to get well illegal weapons, ammunition and bombs. “We were prompt to note down main points of every political rally prematurely and send daily experiences to Lalbazar. All model code of behavior violations must be indexed and recorded on video,” an officer said.
The police persevered its pressure to spherical up infamous criminals and on Friday, arrested Beniapukur residents Sk Haroon Rashid and Sk Hashim, who have several circumstances of extortion against them.
CID seizes Rs 40L in pre-poll raid at Bhowanipore
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