New Delhi/Kolkata: Probing the multi-crore rupee Saradha scam, the CBI yesterday raided 22 locations in West Bengal and Assam, including the residences of two former Assam ministers and a retired police chief and the offices of Kolkata businessman Sandhir Agarwal.
The searches by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) took place at seven locations in Kolkata, 14 in Assam (12 in Guwahati and two in Dhubri) and one in Mumbai, including the residence of Assam’s former education minister Himanta Biswa Sarma and former Assam director general of police (DGP) Shankar Baruah, an official said in New Delhi.
The other residences raided in Assam included that of Congress legislator and former minister Anjan Dutta and singer Sadananda Gogoi. In Kolkata, searches took place at the residences of former personal assistant to a Bengal minister, Bapi Karim and former IPS officer Deben Biswas, the official said.
The CBI has till now registered 48 cases, including four in West Bengal and 44 in Odisha, in the alleged chit fund scam on the directions of the Supreme Court.
IANS
