Kolkata, May 27 -- Police on Wednesday recovered five sacks and a suitcase suspected to contain 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.

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 (TMC) government was allegedly supposed to distribute among people affected by natural calamities in Bengal. Relief materials are distributed through municipalities and panchayats.

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