Sources said Ghosh, who is a Trinamool Congress MLA, was in his Shyambazar home in north Kolkata and was being questioned by CBI officers. Central forces jawans were guarding the deputy mayor's house at the time of the raid.
The raids were conducted as part of investigations into a case which involves an alleged fraud which resulted in a loss of Rs 2,000 crore to the State Bank of India (SBI).
The searches, which continued for a couple of hours at his premises in New Delhi, are said to have been carried out in connection with an alleged violation of Foreign Contribution Regulation Act (FCRA).
Arvind Kejriwal, the national convener of the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP), claimed on Monday that senior AAP leader Manish Sisodia's house may be raided by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) in the coming days. Kejriwal stated that the information came from reliable sources.
At around 10 a.m. after a marathon questioning for around two hours, the CBI sleuths also detained Bishwajyoti Bandopadhyay, the councilor of Ward Number 19 of Bolpur Municipality.
"The Centre Bureau of Investigation (CBI) is conducting raids at 16 places in Delhi, Patna and district Gopalganj of Bihar in connection with the alleged land-for-job scam involving former Railway Minister Lalu Prasad, RJD leader.
The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) on Saturday conducted massive raids at eight premises in Mumbai and Pune in connection with the Yes Bank-DHFL scam.
At least eight former deputy commissioners are being questioned by the CBI in the gun license scam.
The CBI team has been visiting various hotels in Prayagraj and gathering information about members of the Ateeq gang.
The residences of an IAS officer and two politicians were among 12 locations in Delhi and Uttar Pradesh that were raided on Saturday by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) in connection with an illegal sand mining case.
