Major action of CBI against Kolkata's famous businessman Amit Agarwal, case registered on court's order

The CBI has registered a case against Kolkata's well-known businessman Amit Agarwal. Agarwal is accused of paying bribe to hush up a case related to illegal mining of around Rs 1000 crore in Jharkhand. Following the direction of the court, the CBI has registered the FIR. The CBI has taken this big step after the ED's action against Agarwal.

CBI raided Kolkata and Ranchi today in this case. Many important evidence and documents were recovered during the raid. After the action of ED, Anil Agarwal has been accused of hatching a conspiracy to implicate people associated with the law and the officials of the investigating agency in a legal quandary.

A special CBI court on Thursday rejected the bail application of former West Bengal minister Partha Chatterjee in connection with the School Service Commission (SSC) recruitment scam and extended his judicial custody till February 2. Chatterjee was arrested by the Enforcement Directorate (ED) on July 23 last year following the recovery of huge amount of cash, jewelery and property papers from the flat of his alleged close aide Arpita Mukherjee and on September 16 by the CBI on a court order. He was taken into custody. Rejecting Chatterjee's bail plea, the special CBI court judge ordered extension of his judicial custody till February 2. Chatterjee's lawyers, while filing an application for his bail, claimed before the court that nothing has been recovered from him and there has been no progress in the investigation. CBI's counsel opposed the bail plea saying the agency is also probing the role of middlemen (agents) and releasing the former minister at this stage may hamper the investigation.