Huge quantities of high-quality counterfeit Indian currencies were recovered from the accused during the search. A total of 2,000 pieces of 500 rupee notes amounting to Rs 10,00,000 were recovered from them.
The police on Saturday lathi-charged the demonstrators of the newly formed Indian Secular Front (ISF) during a convention organised on the foundation day of the party.
Chief minister Mamata Banerjee while addressing a press conference at Gangasagar in South 24 Parganas termed this a systematic "defamation campaign" against West Bengal and said that it was the spread of fake news.
The West Bengal government has effected a major reshuffle in the top positions in the police department, with senior IPS Rajeev Mishra, who was the additional director general of police of Intelligence Bureau, being transferred to Enforcement Branch as Additional director general.
Calcutta High Court on December 8 directed that West Bengal police shall not register any further FIRs against Adhikari without the court's permission.
According to an official statement, the arrest was made in front of Style Bazar under Karimpur police station on Monday evening after acting upon a source. The brown powder-like substance appearing to be Heroin was concealed in a nylon bag.