A special Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA) court on Monday extended the judicial custody of the wife and son of Trinamool Congress MLA and former West Bengal Board of Primary Education (WBBPE) chairman Manik Bhattacharya. `Recruitment scam.
Incidentally, neither Bhattacharya’s wife Satrupa Bhattacharya nor son Souvik Bhattacharya filed any bail plea in the special court on Monday, though both had earlier moved the Calcutta High Court to name the Enforcement Directorate (ED) in the supplementary charge. was challenged. Sheet in scam.
The ED had arrested Bhattacharya’s wife and son in the case on February 22. After surrendering in court that day, ED officials arrested him in the court premises. He was sent to the Presidency Correctional Home in South Kolkata, where Manik Bhattacharya is also in judicial custody.
The ED’s counsel had consistently claimed in the court that Manik Bhattacharya’s wife and son were not aware of the Trinamool leaders’ involvement in the scam, but were deliberately involved in the process of cheating. On this matter, the lawyer also referred to the joint account of Satrupa Bhattacharya with a deceased person and said that the investigating officer suspects that this account could be used for scam proceedings. The central agency also told the court that the said joint account was kept alive years after his death by using the KYC documents of the deceased person.
Meanwhile, ED officials on Monday have once again summoned beauty salon owner Soma Chakraborty, to whose accounts a huge amount of Rs 50 lakh was transferred in a phased manner from the accounts of arrested Youth Trinamool Congress leader Kuntal Ghosh. Went. He has been summoned to the agency’s office in Salt Lake on March 10.
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