As trouble continues to mount for the ruling Trinamool Congress (TMC) in West Bengal, the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) has now reached the residence of another TMC leader Subodh Adhikary on Sunday in the Bijpur locality of Kanchrapara municipality.
In early morning action taken in connection with the ongoing investigation in a chit fund case, multiple searches are being carried out across the state at seven locations including Kolkata and Halisahar. While CBI teams are searching six premises linked to Subodh Adhikary, sources suggest that the residence of Kachrapara Municipality Chairman Kamal Adhikari is also being searched by the central agency team.
The raids come at a time when the CBI has been probing the Ponzi chit fund schemes that duped lakh of depositors in West Bengal and neighbouring state Odisha. An FIR in connection with the scheme was also lodged by the CBI’s Economic Offences Unit in 2018.
TMC leader arrested in chit fund scam case
The CBI searches also come just a day after the CBI arrested another TMC leader, Raju Sahani on Friday. Sahani who is the chairman of the Halishahar Municipality was taken into CBI custody in an alleged chit fund case. A team of CBI officers conducted raids at Sahani’s houses in Halisahar, on the city outskirts, and New Town in Kolkata and grilled him for hours in connection with its probe into the Bardhaman Sanmarg Welfare Trust Ponzi scheme, an agency official said.
The CBI also recovered Rs 80…
