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PK Halder taken to remand in India

PK Haldar, from the state's North 24 Parganas district, was arrested around noon on Saturday and remanded in court.

On Saturday, the Enforcement Directorate (ED), an investigating agency of the Union Finance Ministry, arrested PK Haldar and five of his associates from a house in Ashok Nagar, North 24 Parganas district.

ED later took him to court. In a statement, the ED said that PK Haldar, a smuggler of thousands of crores of rupees, lived in the Indian state of West Bengal under a different name.

He was hiding in a house in Ashok Nagar in the North 24 Parganas district of the state.

A total of six people, including PK Haldar, were arrested by Indian law enforcement on Saturday. Earlier on Friday, the ED conducted raids in at least nine places in Kolkata and North 24 Parganas. At that time, PK Haldar's personal lawyer Sukumar Mridha was searching for illegal assets in different places including two houses at Ashoknagar in North 24 Parganas and Polerhat in South 24 Parganas. The officers conducted the search operation in different groups. There were a lot of security guards with them at that time.

The ED conducted a day-long operation in Kolkata and North 24 Parganas on Friday in search of PK Haldar. Later on Saturday, the country's law enforcement forces started another operation in search of PK Haldar's property. Apart from West Bengal, Mumbai, the commercial capital of India, and the capital Delhi have also been raided by the investigating agency of the Union Finance Ministry.

According to the ED, with the help of private lawyer Sukumar Mridha, PK Haldar has amassed huge wealth in several states of India, including West Bengal. ED has found that he has amassed huge wealth including multiple elite houses in India through smuggling money from Bangladesh.