Mangaluru: Twelve new COVID-19 cases in DK on Wednesday; Ullal Police Station PSI tests positive
Mangaluru: A 57-year-old woman died of coronavirus for the second consecutive day. Meanwhile, 12 new coronavirus cases have been confirmed in the district on Wednesday. This list also includes a PSI of the Ullal Police Station. With this, the tally of such cases has climbed up to 465 in the district.
Wednesday is also the first time that 45 people have been recovered in a single, and this has brought a ray of hope among the people here.
Of the new cases, four people (a 29-year-old youth, 25, 51, and 24-year-old women) have returned from Sharjah and were quarantined, while the remaining eight were infected without any travel history. This is the first time in the district that many people have been infected in a single day whose source of the contract remained untraced. Seven of them are residents of Mangaluru, one is from Puttur and all are men.
Presently, 155 people are being treated at District COVID Hospital and most of them are in stable condition. A 41-year-old man suffering from COVID-infected pneumonia and a 57-year-old woman suffering from liver problems are being treated at the ICU.
45 people recovered: This is the first time a large number (45 people) who were infected with coronavirus have been released from the hospital after recovery. From a two-year-old child to a 61-year-old senior citizen have recovered. Most of those released are young. In all, 301 people have been cured in the district so far, Deputy Commissioner Sindhu B. Rupesh said.
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ED raids Kolkata Police deputy commissioner, businessman in PMLA probe
Kolkata (PTI): The Enforcement Directorate on Sunday conducted raids at the premises of Kolkata Police Deputy Commissioner Shantanu Sinha Biswas and a local businessman as part of a money laundering probe against an alleged criminal and his linked syndicate in the poll-bound state, officials said.
Two premises of Biswas, including his residence in Ballygunge area and one location of the businessman named Joy Kamdar, Managing Director of a company named Sun Enterprise, have been raided under the provisions of the Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA).
Kamdar has been taken by the officials to the local ED office for questioning. Biswas, chief coordinator and nodal officer of the West Bengal and Kolkata Police welfare committee, was not present at his premises, they said.
The action is linked to a money laundering case against an alleged local criminal named Biswajit Podder alias Sona Pappu, who is booked in multiple cases on charges of attempted murder and extortion.
The federal probe agency had conducted the first round of searches in this case on April 1.
The ED had then seized cash of Rs 1.47 crore apart from gold jewellery and silver valued at Rs 67.64 lakh and a country-made revolver from some premises that were searched.
The probe stems from a Kolkata Police FIR against against Podder for his alleged involvement in rioting, attempt to murder, criminal conspiracy and Arms Act violations. The accused, including Podder, were engaged in organised criminal syndicate activities in the state of West Bengal and generated funds illegally by way of syndicate operations, the ED said in a statement on April 9.
Podder is also wanted by the police in a case of violence in Kankulia road near Golpark of Kolkata and is currently on the run.
The ED has issued summons to Podder but he has failed to join the investigation so far, according to the agency.
West Bengal will have a two phase poll on April 23 and April 29.
