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SIT Set Up After STF Arrests Ex‑Bidhannagar Councillor as ED Opens Rs 1,300‑Crore Probe

Authorities say coordinated police and money‑laundering inquiries will use digital forensics and bank tracing to map an alleged extortion and asset‑concealment network.

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SIT to probe Debraj’s alleged syndicate, extortion case
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Overview

  • Police arrested former BMC councillor Debraj Chakraborty near the Purulia‑Jharkhand border following days of surveillance, and the Bidhannagar Commissionerate has formed a six‑member Special Investigation Team to lead the criminal probe.
  • The SIT has seized mobile devices and a laptop and begun digital forensic work to recover deleted messages, call logs, and encrypted chats as investigators seek links between communications and alleged illegal transactions.
  • Investigators say documents on the seized laptop point to a company called DC Global that police suspect was used to move money quickly through accounts and mask the true beneficiaries of funds.
  • The Enforcement Directorate has filed an ECIR opening a money‑laundering probe into a reported Rs 1,300‑crore trail, and Chakraborty’s wife, former MLA and singer Aditi Munshi, is under scrutiny in the parallel inquiry.
  • Police record about 10 FIRs alleging organised extortion, land grabbing and intimidation, officers say roughly 18 victims lost about Rs 200 crore, four fellow councillors have been arrested and investigators are preparing a chargesheet that the ED may use to deepen asset tracing.