Kolkata, Oct 25, 2025

Tahsin Ahmed, son of Shakil Ahmed aka Master Shakil, co-president of Trinamool Congress’s minority wing in West Burdwan district of West Bengal, who had gone absconding earlier this week after his involvement in a Rs 350 crore chit fund scam in the state surfaced, had been finally arrested by the state police on Saturday evening.

State police sources said that he was arrested from a Jharkhand-bound bus run by an inter-state bus service operator near Chandrachud intersection on National Highway 19. He had plans to escape to Jharkhand. Gold worth Rs 31 lakh was seized from his possession.

The main allegation against Tahsin Ahmed was that he collected deposits worth around Rs 350 crore from around 3,000 individuals in Asansol through an unlicensed corporate entity ope

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