Kolkata:
A politician in Bengal who was expelled from the BJP earlier this year was arrested with six others in Kolkata with bundles of cash amounting to Rs 33 lakh. Police say most of the cash was in brand new 2000 rupee notes.
Manish Sharma, who was a BJP candidate in Raniganj in the assembly polls of April-May, was arrested with Rs 10 lakh in his possession. Another Rs 23 lakh was seized from six others arrested along with him.
Sources say the group had possibly converted black or untaxed money into white in Kolkata.
The seven were arrested Monday night by a police team which was tipped off that the group was travelling in an Innova car from the Asansol-Durgapur to Kolkata with lots of cash and arms.
Raju Jha, one of the people in the group, is suspected to be part of the coal mafia in the Asansol area.
The group managed to slip past the police at the Dankuni toll plaza 30 km from Kolkata, say sources, but police traced their movement through cellphones and arrested them last night from a flat near the Kolkata airport.
A politician in Bengal who was expelled from the BJP earlier this year was arrested with six others in Kolkata with bundles of cash amounting to Rs 33 lakh. Police say most of the cash was in brand new 2000 rupee notes.
Manish Sharma, who was a BJP candidate in Raniganj in the assembly polls of April-May, was arrested with Rs 10 lakh in his possession. Another Rs 23 lakh was seized from six others arrested along with him.
Sources say the group had possibly converted black or untaxed money into white in Kolkata.
The seven were arrested Monday night by a police team which was tipped off that the group was travelling in an Innova car from the Asansol-Durgapur to Kolkata with lots of cash and arms.
Raju Jha, one of the people in the group, is suspected to be part of the coal mafia in the Asansol area.
The group managed to slip past the police at the Dankuni toll plaza 30 km from Kolkata, say sources, but police traced their movement through cellphones and arrested them last night from a flat near the Kolkata airport.
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