The Enforcement Directorate (ED) informed a special PMLA court here on Friday that witnesses in the multi-crore ration distribution case in West Bengal are facing intimidation from certain people reportedly linked to the masterminds of the alleged scam.
On Friday, city-based businessman Biswajit Das, who was arrested on February 14, was presented before the special court and during the course of the hearing, the ED counsel submitted the remand letter of Das to the court.
Although there were references to two independent witnesses in the remand letter, their names were not mentioned.
When Das’ counsel objected to that, the ED counsel informed the court that the names of the witnesses had been deliberately withheld since on previous occasions, some witnesses were intimidated.