KOLKATA/NEW DELHI: Enforcement Directorate (ED) on Sunday raided the residence of a Kolkata Police DCP (Particular Department), Shantanu Sinha Biswas and arrested metropolis businessman Pleasure Kamdar in a moneylaundering probe linked to alleged unlawful land offers and extortion. The ED motion through the Bengal ballot season got here days after IT searches on the residence of TMC candidate Debashis Kumar and Miraj Shah, considered one of CM Mamata Banerjee’s nomination proposers in her Bhowanipore seat. “The home of the one that takes care of my safety has additionally been raided since this morning. Do you need to kill me? They’re raiding us every single day. We are going to file instances for each single incident,” Mamata mentioned at a rally in Tarakeshwar on Sunday. Kamdar, managing director of a number of corporations largely in actual property, was taken into custody after questioning at ED’s workplace. Searches have been carried out at his Behala residence; ED claimed to have recovered Rs 1.2 crore money. He had earlier skipped two ED summons. ED sleuths additionally searched DCP Biswas’s Ballygunge residence. A former OC of Kalighat Police Station, he was not current. His counsel termed the raids “unanticipated”. The probe stems from alleged unlawful land offers and extortion by a syndicate led by history-sheeter Biswajit Podder, aka Sona Pappu. ED mentioned a Toyota Fortuner and a US-made revolver have been seized throughout a latest search. ED sources mentioned illicit funds have been routed by shell and entrance firms to combine them into respectable channels.