00:00So this crackdown is not just on illegal slaughterhouses or illegal activities that were going on at toll plazas, illegal
00:09toll plazas and parkings.
00:11There were targeted search operations at multiple other locations across the state.
00:16The police were stunned after discovering what the police in Bengal have just described as hidden, lavish, subterranean chamber inside
00:26the home of a Trinamul Congress MLC.
00:30Shamim Ahmed.
00:31Now, according to the Bengal police, TMC, MLC, Shamim Ahmed is evading arrest following a wave of post-poll violence.
00:41Police have launched search operations at two locations, at two houses of Trinamul Congress leaders, including TMC, MLA, Dilip Mandal
00:51in the Bishnupur area.
00:53Now, the searches at TMC, MLA, Dilip Mandal's resignation residence was for allegedly making provocative speeches and remarks and issuing
01:06threats to BJP workers in a video that is currently being investigated.
01:11Now, that picture that you see on your television screen, this is the search operation.
01:16The police found a massive swimming pool at the home of the Trinamul Congress leader.
01:24So you're looking at these two images, that lavish underground basement shelter and of course the swimming pool.
01:32I quickly want to cut across to India today's Tapas Sengupta joining us with the latest on the story.
01:38So, Tapas, what more do we know?
01:40Is this swimming pool legal, illegal and is there an explanation from the Trinamul Congress?
01:46Was the said MLA allegedly living beyond his known sources of income?
01:54Oh, well, these are all being verified as of now.
01:57What little we could gather that Dilip Mandal who had such a lavish life, nobody knew about it.
02:03And when following an investigation, the police raided his house this morning.
02:07They were even stunned to have such a big house.
02:10It was more of a resort than of a residence.
02:12He was nowhere to be found there.
02:13He's still absconding as we speak.
02:16But Trinamul Congress seems to be absolutely tight-lipped about this Dilip Mandal and the case.
02:22And as far as Shami Mehmed is concerned, his case also pertains in a similar manner that the Trinamul Congress
02:31remains to be absolutely tight-lipped.
02:32He is also absconding as of now.
02:34He was earlier arrested by NIA and he was out on bail.
02:37But this kind of extravagant lie of the TMC MLAs and the TMC leaders which have come into limelight have
02:44obviously put Trinamul Congress at the back seat.
02:47They do not have anything else to defend these leaders whose residences have come into limelight.
02:54But as far as the police say, the police say the kind of remuneration he used to get, Dilip Mandal
02:59used to get as an MLA, this seems to be much bigger.
03:04And whether or not the source of income that he had shown in his IPR doesn't match with the kind
03:09of what we call here Bagan Badi or a resort that the police have unearthed today.
03:15It doesn't go by that.
03:16So whether or not there will be your investigation is, yes.
03:21Keep tracking that story.
03:24And what a beautiful Bagan Badi that is.
03:26What a lavish swimming pool.
03:28The person who was serving the people of Bengal apparently had.
03:33We'll be tracking that story very, very closely.
03:35Especially the crackdown on illegal tolnakas and slaughterhouses in Bengal.
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