Kolkata, May 27 -- Police on Wednesday recovered five sacks and a suitcase with more cash from a jute field, a day after the chairman of Baduria municipality in West Bengal's North 24 Parganas district was arrested and Rs.80 lakh in unaccounted cash along with calamity relief materials were seized during a raid, police said.

Counting of the money started in the evening at the Baduria police station, in the presence of senior police officers and employees from a bank. Central armed police force personnel were deployed around the police station.

Dipankar Bhattacharya was arrested after Tuesday's raid, which led to the recovery of Rs.80 lakh in unaccounted cash along with several tarpaulins and blankets that the former Trinamool Congress (...