CID officials on Sunday continued raiding the residence of former West Bengal IPS officer Bharati Ghosh.
CID officials on Sunday continued raiding the residence of former West Bengal IPS officer Bharati Ghosh.
The raids come a day after similar raids were conducted at her Natkala residence. Sources told DNA that a number of property-related documents, cash, and gold have been recovered.
The police had initiated the raids following a complaint received by a Chndan Majhi, a gold trader, who had alleged that Ghosh and some senior police officers had threatened him with extortion. The CID had raided the homes of the other police officials and arrested one officer in this regard.
In his complaint, Majhi alleged that after demonetisation the officers had converted their black money into gold through him and had not paid him.
In the complaint, it was said that Ghosh, who was a close aide of West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee, had been at loggerheads with TMC Rajya Sabha MP Manas Bhunia. Bhunia at the time was a Congress MLA before switching party loyalties.
A day after Bhunia defected to the TMC, his wife won the MLA seat vacated by him. Following the victory, Ghosh was removed as the SP of West Midnapore and appointed as the commandant of Third Battalion Of State Armed Police at Barrackpore – a position many consider an ‘ornamental post’.
CPI(M) leaders jumped at the opportunity and appealed to police to take a lesson from the fate of Ghosh. Party state secretary and politburo member Surjya Kanta Mishra took to Twitter saying, ‘If the supremo doubts your loyalty wait for any nonsense but so long your loyalty isn’t questioned you’re free to commit any nonsense. It is time for loyalists to revolt’, the tweet read.
Ghosh had sent a voice message and a WhatsApp message in response, saying that she was out of town and that she and her husband were being harassed. ‘After returning back Calcutta (sic) – I would take all legal steps available to a citizen’, the message said.
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