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Kolkata, April 19 (IANS) The Enforcement Directorate (ED) on Sunday arrested Kolkata-based businessman Joy Kamdar after conducting raids against him and Kolkata Police Deputy Commissioner Shantanu Sinha Biswas as part of a money laundering probe into an alleged criminal-linked syndicate.Kamdar, Managing Director of Sun Enterprise, was taken into custody after four hours of questioning, an ED official said.He was detained from his residence in the Behala area of south Kolkata during raids early i…

Kolkata, April 19 (IANS) The Enforcement Directorate on Sunday detained businessman Joy Kamdar, the Managing Director of Sun Enterprise, as part of its investigation into a money laundering case against criminal Sona Pappu alias Biswajit Poddar and his linked syndicate.The businessman was detained after ED officials conducted a raid at his residence in the Behala area of South Kolkata earlier in the morning. The ED also raided two premises linked to Kolkata Police Deputy Commissioner Shantanu Si…

Kolkata, April 19 (IANS) The Enforcement Directorate (ED) on Sunday conducted raids at the residence of Kolkata Police Deputy Commissioner (DCP) Shantanu Sinha Biswas.The ED officials reached the DCP’s house on Fern Road in Ballygunge at 7 a.m. It is reported that a search is underway at the house.Officials said the search operation was being held in connection with the Sona Pappu syndicate case in the Ballygunge area of South Kolkata. Biswas was once the Officer-in-Charge of Kalighat police sta…

Kolkata, March 29 (IANS) All India Congress Committee (AICC) on Sunday announced party candidates for 284 of the 294 Assembly constituencies in West Bengal, which will vote in two phases next month. As expected, the party has nominated the former state Congress president in West Bengal and five-time party Lok Sabha member, Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury, from the Baharampur Assembly constituency in his native district of Murshidabad.The former Trinamool Congress Rajya Sabha member, Mausam Benazir Noor, …

Kolkata, Dec 24 (IANS) Suspended Trinamool Congress legislator from Bharatpur Assembly Constituency in minority-dominated Murshidabad district of West Bengal, Humayun Kabir, on Wednesday announced the name of former West Bengal Police officer, Abul Hasan, as his new party’s candidate from Ballygunge Assembly constituency in South Kolkata.Incidentally, while officially declaring his new political party, christened Janata Unnayan Party, on December 22, Kabir had announced Nisha Chatterjee as the…