3 accused held after ED raids remanded to judicial custody

Three persons - Amitesh Sinha, deputy bank manager of Burrabazar Branch of a private bank, Sanjay Jain, the tax consultant, and Manoj Gupta, an agent – who were arrested by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) on charges of depositing demonetised notes by opening bank accounts using fake documents were remanded in judicial custody on Sunday.

They were produced before the Bankshall Court on Sunday. The trio was arrested on Thursday early morning after a marathon interrogation by officers of the Enforcement Directorate (ED).

Officers of ED conducted raids at 10 different places in the state on Sunday to probe into the cases in 

which “unexpected” amount of money was deposited in bank accounts those opened under the project Jan Dhan scheme.