Kolkata, July 9 (IANS) The Enforcement Directorate (ED) on Thursday filed a chargesheet against former West Bengal Minister Sujit Bose and his son Samudra Bose in a special court of the Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA) in Kolkata in connection with the ongoing probe into the multi-crore municipalities job case.The chargesheet also names Jyotishman Chattopadhyay, an Indian Administrative Service (IAS) officer and two corporate entities linked to the minister and his son.During the peak p…
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Kolkata, June 13 (IANS) Enforcement Directorate (ED) teams were conducting parallel search operations at multiple locations in and around Kolkata, including the two residences of Trinamool Congress legislator Madan Mitra, in connection with the multi-crore cash-for-municipality jobs case in West Bengal.Of the two residences of Mitra, where the raids and search operations are being conducted, one is at Bhabanipur in south Kolkata and the other at Kamarhati in the northern outskirts of Kolkata. Mi…
Kolkata, June 9 (IANS) Ujjal Biswas, the former West Bengal Correctional Services Minister in the previous Mamata Banerjee-led Trinamool Congress cabinet, was arrested on Tuesday night on charges of illegally hoarding state government relief materials. Biswas is the second former minister in the previous cabinet to be arrested under corruption charges after former West Bengal Fire Services Minister Sujit Bose, who was arrested last month by the Enforcement Directorate (ED) in connection with the…
Kolkata, June 8 (IANS) The Calcutta High Court on Monday rejected former West Bengal Fire Services Minister Sujit Bose’s plea seeking the scrapping of the Enforcement Case Information Report (ECIR) filed by the Enforcement Directorate (ED) against him for his alleged involvement in the multi-crore municipalities’ recruitment case.The single-judge vacation bench of Justice Krishna Rao instead advised Bose to move a bail plea.The judge also rejected Bose’s plea for a fast-track hearing in the …
Kolkata, June 4 (IANS) Former West Bengal Minister and Trinamool Congress leader Sujit Bose, who is in judicial custody in connection with the municipal recruitment corruption case, appeared in a virtual hearing in the court on Thursday. Similar to the former Kolkata Police officer Shantanu Sinha Biswas and businessmen Jay Kamdar, Sujit Bose’s lawyer also requested the judge to grant his client the status of a Grade One prisoner. However, the Enforcement Directorate (ED) objected to this request…
Kolkata, May 29 (IANS) The Calcutta High Court on Friday refused to entertain a petition by former West Bengal Fire Services Minister Sujit Bose challenging his arrest earlier this month by the Enforcement Directorate (ED) in connection with the multi-crore municipalities recruitment irregularities case in the state.Since the Calcutta High Court is having its summer vacation now, Bose’s counsel on Thursday moved the petition before the single-judge vacation bench of Justice Shampa Dutta Paul.T…
Kolkata, May 28 (IANS) Former West Bengal Fire Services Minister Sujit Bose on Thursday approached a single-judge vacation bench of the Calcutta High Court challenging his arrest earlier this month by the Enforcement Directorate (ED) in connection with the multi-crore municipalities recruitment scam in the state.The matter is scheduled to come up for hearing on Friday before the single-judge vacation bench of Justice Shampa Dutta Paul.A three-time Trinamool Congress legislator from the Bidhannag…
Kolkata, May 22 (IANS) As part of an ongoing crackdown on Trinamool Congress (TMC) leaders accused of intimidation and financial irregularities during the previous Mamata Banerjee-led regime in West Bengal, police in the Asansol-Durgapur Police Commissionerate on Friday arrested a trade union leader from Durgapur, officials said.The arrested leader has been identified as Sheikh Wasul, the president of INTTUC unit in the Durgapur-Faridpur area and a resident of Rangamati under Durgapur-Faridpur B…
Kolkata, May 20 (IANS) The Enforcement Directorate (ED) on Wednesday issued fresh summons to former West Bengal food and supplies minister in the previous Mamata Banerjee-led state cabinet, Rathin Ghosh, for further interrogation in the multi-crore cash-for municipalities job case in the state. Ghosh, the four-time Trinamool Congress legislator from Madhyamgram Assembly constituency in North 24 Parganas district, has been asked to be present at ED’s office at the central government office (CGO…
Kolkata, May 18 (IANS) Panchu Roy, former chairman of the Trinamool Congress-run South Dum Dum Municipality in West Bengal’s North 24 Parganas district, has appeared before the Enforcement Directorate (ED) at its Salt Lake office in Kolkata on Monday for questioning in connection with the alleged multi-crore cash-for-municipal jobs scam.Sources said that Roy is likely to be questioned alongside former West Bengal Fire Services Minister Sujit Bose, who was arrested by the ED last week in the sa…