India, May 22 -- The Enforcement Directorate (ED) on Friday searched at least nine locations across West Bengal as part of its probe into an alleged property-grabbing racket involving a police officer with alleged links with the Opposition Trinamool Congress (TMC) and a real-estate businessman.

The racket allegedly grabbed prime properties mostly in south Kolkata at throwaway prices. Muscleman Biswajit Poddar alias Sona Pappu, former Kolkata police deputy commissioner Shantanu Sinha Biswas, and real estate businessman Joy S Kamdar have been arrested in the case.

An ED official said the agency searched nine locations in Kolkata and Murshidabad on Friday in pursuance of the findings of the custodial interrogation of the accused and others...