The Congress party suspended three MLAs after the West Bengal Police found a sizable sum of cash in their vehicles on Saturday. The police said the quantity of cash was between Rs. 48 and Rs. 50 lakh but did not give a precise figure.
Digital Desk: Three of the five people
detained are Congress MLAs from Jharkhand who were found in West Bengal with a
large amount of cash. It was discovered that the MLAs' vehicles had Rs 50 lakh
in cash.
Police
have also taken a driver and a helper into custody. Present in Howrah District
Court were the three MLAs who were held today.
The
Congress party suspended three MLAs after the West Bengal Police found a
sizable sum of cash in their vehicles on Saturday. The police said the quantity
of cash was between Rs. 48 and Rs. 50 lakh but did not give a precise figure.
A
top police source claims that the state CID has taken over the investigation
from the Howrah Rural Police.
The SUV transporting MLAs Irfan
Ansari, Rajesh Kachchap, and Naman Bixal Kongari was stopped on National
Highway-16 near Ranihati in the vicinity of the Panchla police station.
The police stopped an SUV being driven
by three MLAs, Irfan Ansari, Rajesh Kachchap, and Naman Bixal Kongari, on
National Highway-16 close to Ranihati.
Ansari is an MLA for Jamtara, while
Kongari is an MLA for Simdega, Kachchap is an MLA for Ranchi, and Ansari is an
MLA for Khijri in Jamtara.
Irfan Ansari's brother, Imran, said
that his brother was being duped and that the funds were meant to be spent on
"items for tribals." These people had rushed to Kolkata's Bada Bazaar
once again this year like they had done every year. He added that every year,
his brother buys sarees from Bada Bazaar for native women.
This recovery takes place concurrently with the seizure of a substantial amount of money from assets linked to former TMC minister Partha Chatterjee, who is being investigated in connection with the school jobs scandal.
"They
couldn't explain why they were carrying so much money about." We are not
satisfied with their justification that they came here to purchase sarees to
donate to tribal women. They are detained awaiting additional investigation.
The police officer addressed the journalists.
The Prevention of Corruption Act and
the Indian Penal Code (IPC), which include relevant sections that address
criminal conspiracy, have been used to file charges against the five people,
including the MLAs.
The Congress claims that the BJP is
aiming to topple the Jharkhand administration.
Avinash Pande, the leader of the
Congress, alleged that during the past two years, there have been attempts to
overthrow the government in Jharkhand and that MPs have occasionally been
approached, intimidated, and blackmailed.
Rajesh
Thakur, head of the Jharkhand Pradesh Congress Committee (PCC), commented on
the money confiscated from three Congress legislatures and said that the BJP
was behind the plot.
"They
have long attempted to topple non-BJP governments in non-BJP controlled
states." How they overthrew the Maharsthara regime is also known to the
public, "he added.
