Kolkata: Three days and 13 arrests later, police are finally tracking down the behind-the-scenes players in the Short Street controversy. Realtor Parag Majmudar was arrested at the airport on Wednesday afternoon for allegedly masterminding the property takeover bid, which resulted in a shooting that killed two young men.
Parag, a Kalighat-based broker known to hobnob with a section of Trinamool Congress leaders, is alleged to have floated Heartline Estates Pvt Ltd in Kolkata with the sole aim of buying the 9A Short Street property. He bought it for Rs 10 lakh, registered it in Mumbai, sold it to Sanjay Sureka for Rs 8.5 crore and was trying to wind up the firm, say police.
"He was arrested at 3.30pm at Kolkata airport with a bagful of documents. He had a boarding pass for Mumbai. We suspect he is the mastermind," said joint commissioner-crime Pallab Kanti Ghosh. The irony is that Mamata Agarwal had filed three complaints against Parag at Shakespeare Sarani police station but he wasn't even questioned. On Wednesday night, however, Parag will be brought face-to-face with Mamata for a grilling at the Lalbazar library that has been turned into an interrogation room, say sources.
14/11/13 Times of India
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Parag, a Kalighat-based broker known to hobnob with a section of Trinamool Congress leaders, is alleged to have floated Heartline Estates Pvt Ltd in Kolkata with the sole aim of buying the 9A Short Street property. He bought it for Rs 10 lakh, registered it in Mumbai, sold it to Sanjay Sureka for Rs 8.5 crore and was trying to wind up the firm, say police.
"He was arrested at 3.30pm at Kolkata airport with a bagful of documents. He had a boarding pass for Mumbai. We suspect he is the mastermind," said joint commissioner-crime Pallab Kanti Ghosh. The irony is that Mamata Agarwal had filed three complaints against Parag at Shakespeare Sarani police station but he wasn't even questioned. On Wednesday night, however, Parag will be brought face-to-face with Mamata for a grilling at the Lalbazar library that has been turned into an interrogation room, say sources.
14/11/13 Times of India
