# ED identifies 30 Kolkata Police officers in land-grabbing case 2026-08-10T16:50:34+00:00 | Governance | Indian Opinion Desk Corroboration: 1 independent outlet The Enforcement Directorate has identified around 30 Kolkata Police officers of various ranks for alleged involvement in a land-grabbing racket linked to former Deputy Commissioner Shantanu Sinha Biswas, gangster Biswajit Poddar alias Sona Pappu, and businessman Joy Kamdar. According to Millennium Post, the officers followed Biswas’s instructions to intimidate landowners into selling their plots at nominal prices. ED raids on Constable Ruhul Amin’s home and Biswas’s ancestral residence in Murshidabad yielded about two kg of gold worth Rs 3 crore, cash, and incriminating documents. Investigators are questioning Biswas to map the full network within the city police. ## Coverage - millenniumpost.in Tags: corruption, Enforcement Directorate, Kolkata Police, land grabbing, Shantanu Sinha Biswas, West Bengal Canonical: https://indianopinion.org/ed-identifies-30-kolkata-police-officers-in-land-grabbing-case/ License: Summary and commentary (c) Indian Opinion, reusable with attribution. Facts belong to the linked sources. Cite: https://indianopinion.org/ed-identifies-30-kolkata-police-officers-in-land-grabbing-case/#story-in-brief Review state: restored archive article, accurate at time of publication, not offered to search indexes.