Kolkata, Feb 13 (IANS) The Enforcement Directorate (ED) on Friday said it has attached assets worth Rs 302.89 crore in three separate money laundering cases, an official said.According to press statements issued by the ED, the highest attachment — amounting to Rs 200.02 crore — was made in connection with the Andaman & Nicobar State Co-operative Bank Limited (ANSCBL) fraud case involving alleged financial irregularities.“The attached properties include hotels, resorts and parcels of land…
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New Delhi, Feb 9 (IANS) The Supreme Court is scheduled to hear on Tuesday the plea filed by the Enforcement Directorate (ED) alleging interference by the West Bengal government and Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee during the Central agency’s recent search operations at the office of political consultancy firm Indian Political Action Committee (I-PAC) and the residence of its co-founder Pratik Jain in Kolkata.As per the cause list published on the website of the apex court, the matter is listed b…
Kolkata, Feb 9 (IANS) The Enforcement Directorate (ED) on Monday issued a notice for interrogation to Monoranjan Hazra, the officer-incharge under Budbud Police Station, which comes under the Asansol-Durgapur Police Commissionerate (ADPC), in connection with the multi-crore coal smuggling case in West Bengal.Earlier this month, the ED officials also conducted a raid and search operation at Hazra’s residence in connection with the coal smuggling case, and during those operations, the Investigat…
Kolkata, Feb 3 (IANS) The Leader of Opposition (LoP) in the West Bengal Assembly, Suvendu Adhikari on Tuesday said that Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee’s claims in her affidavit in the Supreme Court on the Enforcement Directorate’s petition regarding her ‘interference’ during a search operation at the office and residence of Indian Political Action Committee (I-PAC) co-founder Pratik Jain in Kolkata are contradictory to the statements she made on January 8, the day of the raid. “The Chief Min…
Kolkata, Feb 3 (IANS) The Enforcement Directorate (ED) continued its raids across West Bengal’s West Burdwan district on Tuesday in connection with a coal and sand smuggling case, with dramatic scenes unfolding at the residence of businessman Rajesh Bansal in Jamuria. According to ED sources, officials of the State Bank of India (SBI) arrived at Bansal’s house carrying sacks and were later seen exiting with three of them.Sources said that so far Rs 65 lakh has been recovered from the premise…
Kolkata, Feb 3 (IANS) The Enforcement Directorate (ED) officers conducted raids on Tuesday at multiple locations in West Bengal as part of its investigation into sand and coal smuggling cases.The raids are currently underway in the West Burdwan district.A team of ED sleuths arrived in the district early in the morning and conducted a raid in Nabagram. Sources said that the ED is investigating allegations of illegal extraction and smuggling of coal from Eastern Coalfields Limited.The search is be…
New Delhi, Feb 3 (IANS) The Supreme Court will hear on Tuesday the plea filed by the Enforcement Directorate (ED) alleging interference by the West Bengal government and Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee during the recent search operations at the office of political consultancy firm Indian Political Action Committee (I-PAC) and the residence of its co-founder Pratik Jain in Kolkata.A Bench of Justices Prashant Kumar Mishra and Vipul M. Pancholi will resume hearing the matter on Tuesday, according t…
Kolkata, Feb 2 (IANS) Trinamool Congress General Secretary and the party’s Lok Sabha member, Abhishek Banerjee, will be accompanying West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee during the latter’s scheduled meeting with the Chief Election Commissioner (CEC), Gyanesh Kumar, at the Election Commission of India (ECI)’s headquarters in New Delhi on Monday afternoon.The meeting time has been scheduled for 4 p.m. The Chief Minister has been in New Delhi since Sunday afternoon, preparing the groun…
Kolkata, Jan 29 (IANS) The Calcutta High Court on Thursday again rejected the plea from the Bharatiya Janata Party’s (BJP) West Bengal unit to hold protest demonstrations in front of the state Secretariat ‘Nabanna’ against Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee’s alleged move hindering the Enforcement Directorate (ED)’s raids against the Indian Action Political Action Committee (I-PAC).A division bench of Chief Justice Sujoy Paul and Justice Partha Sarathi Sen declined the party’s plea challenging the s…
Kolkata, Jan 28 (IANS) The Mamata Banerjee government will move a motion in the West Bengal Assembly to condemn the role of Central probe agencies like the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) and the Enforcement Directorate (ED) in the state during the Budget Session starting next week.Sources in the Trinamool Congress’s legislative party in the state Assembly said that during the session, the Treasury Bench will also move another motion condemning the manner in which the ongoing Special Int…