KOLKATA Police on Wednesday arrested former West Bengal Minister Indranil Sen over financial irregularities in holding Durga Puja preview shows and the sale of passes, with Chief Minister Suvendu Adhikari claiming his predecessor Mamata Banerjee may have benefitted, and it would be wrong to assume only Sen pocketed the money. The singer and former tourism and Culture Minister in the previous TMC Government was arrested after hours of grilling by the Enforcement Directorate (ED) and Kolkata Police into the “financial irregularities” committed by MassArt Society, with which Sen and his wife Madhuchhanda were allegedly associated, in managing Durga Puja ‘preview shows’.

 

Reacting to the development, Adhikari, while addressing a press conference at State Secretariat Nabanna, said the arrest followed an investigation by the ED and Kolkata Police, which, he claimed, must have found evidence warranting legal action. “An investigation has been underway against him for a long time. The ED has been probing the case, and so has the Kolkata Police. They must have found something. But it would be wrong to think that Indranil Sen kept all the money for himself. He may have shared the spoils with Mamata Banerjee. It is not just him; the investigation will reach even bigger names. Just wait and watch,” he said.