Abhishek leads massive road show in Tamluk, calls BJP candidate a traitor
Trinamul Congress general secretary Abhishek Banerjee spearheaded a significant road show today in Tamluk, drawing thousands of enthusiastic supporters.
Following marathon raids by the Enforcement Directorate since Tuesday, the central agency arrested a local businessman named Biswajit Das, said to be close to arrested Trinamul Congress leader Shankar Adhya, on Wednesday in connection with the ration distribution case.
This was the ED’s fourth arrest in the PDS case. The Enforcement Directorate, in pursuit of alleged close aides to businessman Bakibur Rahaman, the main accused in the PDS scam case, had earlier arrested the former state food and civil supplies minister, Jyotipriya Mallick. Mr Das, known to be close to the arrested Trinamul leader Addhya, a former chairman of Bongaon municipality, and also to arrested businessman Bakibur Rahaman, had been subjected to a marathon grilling since Tuesday evening at his residence at IB Block, Salt Lake.
He was formally arrested on Wednesday morning and is likely to be produced before a special Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA) court in Kolkata and the ED counsel will seek his custody. Mr Das, claimed a source in the know, ran forex exchange company besides dealing in gold ornaments. He owns a jewellery shop. It is suspected that Mr Das was a partner of Mr Adhya in the process of divers ion of the proceeds of the alleged ration distribution scam, first by converting them into foreign currenci es and subsequently park them abroad, especially in Dubai and Bangl adesh, through the hawala route. Mr Das’s name is said to have surfaced during the course of the interrogation of Mr Adhya and his family members.
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