The raids were conducted two days after the Central Bureau of Investigation had arrested Trinamool Congress leader Raju Sahani, who is the municipal chairman of Halisahar near Kolkata, in connection with a chit fund case related to Sunmarg Welfare Organisation.
The CBI arrested TMC leader and chairman of Burdwan Municipality in West Bengal, Pranab Chatterjee for allegedly siphoning off Rs 3.74 crore from a trust running a chit fund scheme, officials said on Friday. The alleged role of Chatterjee, not named in the FIR, had surfaced during the three-year-long probe against chit fund schemes allegedly run by Sunmarg Welfare