A senior CID official said on Tuesday that cash recovered from three arrested Jharkhand Congress MLAs was transported through hawala by a Kolkata-based businessman. He said the CID raided the office of the businessman, identified as Mahendra Agarwal, in front of the Kolkata Police headquarters in Lalbazar and recovered Rs 3 lakh in cash, several bank passbooks and 250 silver coins.
“The office was closed and the mobile phone of the owner was switched off. We conducted raids to find out more about his activities.” Agarwal had gone missing after the arrest of three MLAs with over Rs 49 lakh in cash last weekend in Howrah’s Panchala, the official said.
Three MLAs – Irfan Ansari, Rajesh Kachhap and Naman Bixal Kongari – have already been suspended by the Congress, which alleged that they were part of a conspiracy hatched by the BJP to topple its coalition government with JMM and RJD in Jharkhand. Were. “All the three MLAs, accompanied by a mediator, had gone to Guwahati, where a deal was struck with some influential person. After this the three MLAs went back to Kolkata and stayed in a hotel on Sudder Street.
Efforts are on to trace the Youth Congress leader, he said, adding that he has already secured the CCTV footage of the hotel as evidence of the activities that took place there. The Congress has also dragged the name of Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma in the alleged conspiracy, but these allegations were dismissed by the BJP, which claimed that the oldest party was trying to hide its own corruption after getting the cash. was being
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