2 days ago
1
Nearly 30 Kolkata Police unit are nether the Directorate of Enforcement (ED) scanner successful transportation with an alleged land-grabbing racket successful the city, a elder authoritative of the cardinal probe bureau said connected Monday (May 25, 2026).
Police unit of antithetic ranks are suspected of having links with a syndicate accused of coercing elder citizens into selling properties astatine below-market prices, helium said.
ED arrests Kolkata Police DC Shantanu Sinha Biswas successful wealth laundering case
"Several constabulary unit person travel nether the scanner during the people of the investigation. Their nonstop relation is being examined," a elder ED authoritative acquainted with the probe said. "We person travel crossed definite documents and integer grounds which are being analysed. The probe is present focused connected establishing the wealth way and identifying each beneficiaries," helium said. Some information from the seized mobile phones appears to person been deleted. Efforts are underway to retrieve the accusation done forensic examination, helium added.
The ED is presently probing the relation of 3 arrested accused, Biswajit Poddar alias Sona Pappu, erstwhile Kolkata Police lawman commissioner Santanu Sinha Biswas, and businessman Joy Kamdar, successful the alleged racket. Investigators fishy that the syndicate operated done intimidation and misuse of constabulary influence.
While Sona Pappu allegedly threatened targeted spot owners, Biswas is accused of utilizing section constabulary machinery to equine unit connected victims, forcing them to portion with their onshore astatine undervalued rates. The properties were past allegedly acquired and developed done concern links connected to Kamdar.
As portion of the investigation, ED officials connected Friday (May 22, 2026) carried retired searches astatine aggregate locations linked to businessman Mohammad Ali alias Max Raju, Saurav Adhikari, nephew of Sinha Biswas, and sub-inspector Ruhil Amin Ali. They besides searched the residence of Sinha Biswas successful Murshidabad district. The raids were conducted based connected accusation gathered during the interrogation of Sona Pappu and Sinha Biswas, sources said.
The officials of the cardinal probe bureau are besides examining the wealth way and probing accusation related to properties allegedly owned by Sinha Biswas extracurricular West Bengal, including imaginable assets successful Dubai, the serviceman added.
Sona Pappu was arrested by the ED past week aft respective hours of grilling, a fewer days aft nabbing Sinha Biswas. Kamdar had earlier been arrested successful April successful transportation with the aforesaid case.
