New Delhi, May 15 -- The Enforcement Directorate (ED) has arrested Kolkata Police Deputy Commissioner Shantanu Sinha Biswas for running an extortion syndicate.

The ED had been questioning Shantanu at the CGO Complex in Kolkata since yesterday morning after the police officer appeared before agency officials for interrogation. He was arrested after being questioned for more than 10-and-a-half hours and will be produced before a court today.

The ED had summoned Sinha Biswas, former Officer-in-Charge of Kalighat Police Station, several times for questioning as part of its money laundering investigation into an alleged criminal-linked syndicate run by Sona Pappu alias Biswajit Poddar. However, he had repeatedly skipped the ED summons.

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