CID raided residences of former IPS officer Bharati Ghosh

former IPS officer Bharati Ghosh and kept Belda police station officer Pradip Rath under

closed following their alleged involvement in misconduct and extortion from the civilians.

The CID sleuths in many groups fanned out at different districts, including Kolkata

and began raiding the houses where Bharati Ghosh often visits and stay and started

interrogating the Belda police station officer ( West Medinipur) Pradip Rath, who

reportedly closed to Ms Ghosh.

The raids were conducted following a court order after one Chandan Majhi complained

that some police personnel had forcefully taken money from him late last year.

Farmer IPS officer Bharati Ghosh, then SP of West Medinipur, who was once very loyal

officer to the TMC government, resigned from the services after she was transferred to

3rd Battalion of State Armed Police in Barrackpore in last wee of December, 2017.

Ms Ghosh, who once referred chief minister Mamata Banerjee as 'mother', was

transferred to a less significant post after allegations by a section of Trinamool Congress

leadership that she had worked partially favouring BJP in the recently-concluded Sabang by-election.

While TMC won the by-election by 67,912 votes, BJP increased its votes by over three

times since the 2016 Assembly elections.

Sources said the CID officers in plain cloths raiding the house of Bharati Ghosh at Netaji

Nagar in south Kolkata and seized some documents.

The CID officials refused to talk to the media people saying they have an order for

searching and any incriminating document if seized to be taken to Bhawani Bhawan, HQ of

West Bengal police.

Reports said that some of the residences in West Medinipur were also searched where

Ms Ghosh visited during her stay in the district.

The CID also searched some of junior police offices' homes in West Medinipur.