July 29, 2026 11:01 pm (IST)
Follow us:
facebook-white sharing button
twitter-white sharing button
instagram-white sharing button
youtube-white sharing button
Farmers storm Bhopal! Traffic crippled as protest over MSP intensifies | Supreme Court gives clean chit to Manmohan Singh in coal block scam case two years after death, accepts CBI closure report | Rahul Gandhi's 'student, idiot, andhbhakt' remark sparks uproar in Lok Sabha during anti-paper leak bill debate | Assam flood death toll climbs to 75; Over 3 lakh still affected as relief efforts intensify | 'You are simply useless': Kangana Ranaut hits back at CJP's Saurav Das in fresh Instagram attack | Assam floods: Death toll stays at 68 as over 5.24 lakh continue to battle deluge | 'Probe is meaningless if responsibility isn't fixed': Supreme Court slams Delhi Police over CJP protest crackdown | 'No protester will be left alone': CJP claims Centre shared FIR withdrawal copies after midnight talks | Bihar cop suspended after viral AK-47 firing video during NEET protest crackdown | After Dharmendra Pradhan's exit, 'E20 Janta Party' emerges, demands Nitin Gadkari's resignation over fuel policy
PC Sorcar Jr
File Picture

Kolkata: Magician P.C. Sorcar Jr.'s premises raided by CBI in chit fund probe

| @indiablooms | Jan 29, 2021, at 09:12 pm

Kolkata/IBNS: The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) on Friday carried out raid at the Kolkata residence of iconic magician P. C. Sorcar Junior in connection with its ongoing probe into Tower Group ponzi firm scam, sources said. 

According to sources in the Central probe agency, a CBI team raided the premise of the magician located in eastern Kolkata's Mukundapur area.

"The magician reportedly signed a business deal with Tower Group years ago, and today's search operation was carried out to examine the deal as well as the transaction between him and the chit fund  company," a CBI official said.

Neither the CBI nor the Sorcar family officially said anything about the raid.

Besides, the magician's premise, CBI reportedly raided three more locations in connection with the same probe.

Support Our Journalism

We cannot do without you.. your contribution supports unbiased journalism

IBNS is not driven by any ism- not wokeism, not racism, not skewed secularism, not hyper right-wing or left liberal ideals, nor by any hardline religious beliefs or hyper nationalism. We want to serve you good old objective news, as they are. We do not judge or preach. We let people decide for themselves. We only try to present factual and well-sourced news.

Support objective journalism for a small contribution.