Kolkata:

The West Bengal CID on Wednesday performed a raid on the place of abode of some of the 3 arrested Jharkhand MLAs in reference to the probe into the money seizure case and recovered Rs 5 lakh and an SUV from there, a senior officer of the company stated.

A CID workforce raided the place of abode of Irfan Ansari at Jamtara in Jharkhand and spoke to the baby-kisser’s members of the family.

“This SUV was once used to carry Rs 75 lakh in money from Kolkata. We have were given CCTV photos from the town’s Lalbazar house. This is a part of a larger conspiracy. We have additionally seized Rs 5 lakh (in money) throughout the raid at Ansari’s place of abode,” the officer stated.

Apart from Ansari, the West Bengal Police had arrested on July 31 two different Congress MLAs – Rajesh Kachchap and Naman Bixal Kongari – after seizing Rs 49 lakh in money from the automobile through which they had been travelling.

After taking up the investigation, the CID arrested businessman Mahendra Agarwal, who had allegedly equipped the seized money to the 3 MLAs.

The Congress, which is part of the JMM-led executive in Jharkhand, alleged that the BJP was once looking to topple the Hemant Soren executive by way of providing Rs 10 crore every and a ministerial berth to MLAs.

The Congress has additionally dragged within the title of Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma within the alleged conspiracy, however those allegations had been rubbished by way of the BJP, which claimed that the grand outdated birthday celebration was once looking to cover its personal corruption after the money was once discovered.

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