Kolkata, May 28 (IANS) Former Kolkata Police Deputy Commissioner (DC) Shantanu Sinha Biswas and real estate developer Biswajit Poddar alias Sona Pappu were produced before the Bankshall court on Thursday as the ED custody period expired. Shantanu’s lawyer requested the judge to grant his client the status of a ‘Grade One’ prisoner.Shantanu’s lawyer said on Thursday, “Shantanu has a threat to his life. My client has conducted important investigations in several police stations. Several accu…
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Kolkata, May 25 (IANS) The Enforcement Directorate’s (ED) investigation into the alleged criminal-linked syndicate has revealed that arrested Kolkata Police officer Shantanu Sinha Biswas is yet to produce his two mobile phones before investigating officers, an insider at the central investigation agency said on Monday. Former Trinamool Congress MLA Jiban Krishna Saha had thrown his mobile phones into a pond during an ED search at his Murshidabad residence to destroy evidence in an SSC recruitm…
Kolkata, May 25 (IANS) West Bengal Chief Minister Suvendu Adhikari on Monday gave a patient hearing to an elderly couple who had been cheated by the recently arrested land mafia-promoters Biswajit Poddar a.k.a Sona Papu and Joy Kamdar, and assured them of his personal intervention to resolve the matter.The Chief Minister interacted with people and listened to their grievances at his pre-announced ‘Janatar Darbare (People’s Court)’ session.Probir Mukhopadhyay and his wife, both senior citizens …
Kolkata, May 19 (IANS) The Enforcement Directorate has filed a series of charges in court against Biswajit Poddar alias Sona Pappu, who was arrested in connection with a syndicate and corruption case. The central investigation agency claimed in court that Sona Pappu used to acquire other people’s land and property at low prices by threatening them.Not only him alone, the Enforcement Directorate has also mentioned a gang of three people in court.The agency claimed that Pappu worked for Behala b…
Kolkata, May 18 (IANS) The Enforcement Directorate on Monday arrested Biswajit Poddar alias Sona Pappu in connection with a financial fraud and extortion case. Sona Pappu was in the news for various reasons before the Assembly elections. He was allegedly involved in various illegal activities, but was still missing. However, Pappu appeared at the Enforcement Directorate office at the CGO Complex in Salt Lake on Monday.After being questioned for nine hours from morning till night, the…
Kolkata, May 16 (IANS) The West Bengal government had terminated the services of Kolkata Police Deputy Commissioner, Shantanu Sinha Biswas, who was arrested by officials of the Enforcement Directorate (ED).The action was in connection with a couple of money laundering-cum-land-linked syndicate cases involving a notorious and currently absconding history-sheeter.Despite attaining the official retirement age of 60, Biswas was retained under extension for two years by the previous Mamata Banerjee-l…
Kolkata, May 14 (IANS) The Enforcement Directorate (ED) on Thursday arrested Kolkata Police Deputy Commissioner Shantanu Sinha Biswas in connection with a criminal-linked syndicate case.The ED had been questioning Shantanu at the CGO Complex in Kolkata since Thursday morning after the police officer appeared before agency officials for interrogation.He was arrested after being questioned for more than 10-and-a-half hours and will be produced before a court on Friday.The ED had summoned Sinha Bis…
Kolkata, May 14 (IANS) Kolkata Police Deputy Commissioner Shantanu Sinha Biswas appeared at the Enforcement Directorate (ED) office here on Thursday for questioning in a criminal-linked syndicate case.The development comes two days after the ED wrote a letter to the Directorate of Security, asking to know the status of Biswas and whether he was serving any duty. This was done to make the police officer, who had skipped multiple summons of the agency, appear before the ED officers.The central inv…
Kolkata, May 13 (IANS) The Enforcement Directorate (ED) on Wednesday urged the office of the Director of Securities of West Bengal government to ask the absconding Deputy Commissioner of Kolkata Police, Santanu Sinha Biswas, to appear before the Investigating Official of the central probe agency to face questioning in connection with two cases of money laundering where his name had been linked. The ED, at the same time, had sought details of Sinha Biswas’s service records so far.Incidentally, th…
Kolkata, April 26 (IANS) The Enforcement Directorate (ED) on Sunday was conducting searches at three places, including the houses of two businessmen in Anandapur and Alipore areas, in Kolkata. According to ED officials, this search was linked to its investigation into a criminal-linked syndicate of Sona Pappu alias Biswajit Poddar.The ED has already arrested Joy Kamdar, a businessman close to Sona Pappu. Kamdar is currently in the ED’s custody. It is reported that these businessmen, whose premis…