Money from TMC leader’s accounts transferred to corporate entity, Bengal Police in supplementary chargesheet

Kolkata, Sep 16 (IANS) The Bidhannagar City Police in North 24 Parganas district of West Bengal on Wednesday submitted a supplementary chargesheet at a district court on Wednesday in the case of disproportionate assets against former Trinamool Congress Councillor from Bidhannagar Municipal Corporation (BMC), Debraj Chakraborty.

In the supplementary chargesheet filed against Chakraborty and his wife Aditi Munishi, a former Trinamool Congress legislator and an acclaimed devotional private life, the Bidhannagar City Police had claimed that a portion of the money earned by Chakraborty through extortion was also transferred from his account to that of an infamous corporate entity, whose name got involved in other financial irregularities cases in West Bengal during the previous Trinamool Congress regime, like the coal scam and the cash-for-school job scam.

After the chargesheet was filed at Barasat Court on Wednesday, the special public prosecutor Bivas Chatterjee, who is handling the disproportionate assets case against Chakraborty, claimed that the total money earned through unfair means, mainly extortion, in this case, would be nothing less than Rs 100 crore.

“As you are aware, I have also personally received a threatening call in relation to this particular case. I have also informed the police in the matter,” Chatterjee said.

It is learnt that in the supplementary chargesheet filed on Wednesday, the Bidhannagar City Police also informed about the possibility of further investigation and filing of additional supplementary chargesheets if necessary.

“The money obtained through illegal means has entered various important bank accounts. There is electronic and other evidence in the matter,” the public prosecutor said.

Earlier, the first chargesheet was filed against Chakraborty in the matter at the Barasat court on August 6. He was arrested in July this year on multiple charges, including extortion and possession of disproportionate assets.

He also faces allegations related to an extortion racket, land grabbing, syndicate operations in the Bidhannagar area, and a case linked to post-poll violence in 2021. He is currently in judicial custody.

–IANS

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