A particular Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA) court docket on Monday prolonged the judicial custody of the spouse and son of Trinamool Congress legislator and West Bengal Board of Primary Education`s (WBBPE) former President Manik Bhattacharya in reference to the multi-crore lecturers` recruitment rip-off.
Incidentally, neither did Bhattacharya`s spouse Satarupa Bhattacharya nor son Souvik Bhattacharya moved any bail plea on the particular court docket on Monday, although each have earlier moved the Calcutta High Court difficult Enforcement Directorate (ED)`s transfer to call them within the supplementary cost sheet within the rip-off.
Bhattacharya`s spouse and son have been arrested by ED within the matter on February 22. After they surrendered on the court docket on that day, the ED sleuths arrested them on the court docket premises. They have been despatched to the Presidency Correctional Home in south Kolkata, the place Manik Bhattacharya can also be in judicial custody.
ED`s counsel had always claimed within the court docket that Manik Bhattacharya`s spouse and son weren’t conscious of the Trinamool leaders` involvement within the rip-off but in addition knowingly participated within the swindling course of. On this matter, counsel additionally referred to a joint account held by Satarupa Bhattacharya with a deceased particular person and stated the investigation official doubts that this account may need been used for diversion of rip-off proceeds. The central company additionally knowledgeable the court docket that the stated joint account was saved alive utilizing the KYC paperwork of the deceased particular person, even after years of his demise.
Meanwhile, on Monday, the ED officers have as soon as once more summoned for questioning magnificence salon proprietor Soma Chakraborty, to whose account a large quantity of Rs 50 lakh have been transferred in phases from the accounts of arrested youth Trinamool Congress chief Kuntal Ghosh. She has been summoned to the company`s workplace at Salt Lake on March 10.
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