Kolkata, Oct 26 (IANS) A district court in the industrial township of Asansol on Sunday remanded Tahsin Ahmed, son of Shakil Ahmed aka Master Shakil, co-president of the Trinamool Congress’s minority wing in West Burdwan district of West Bengal, to ten days of police custody. He was arrested on Saturday for his alleged involvement in a Rs 350 crore chit fund scam.

On Sunday afternoon, Tahsin Ahmed was presented at the district court. While the public prosecutors sought police custody for him, the defence counsel moved a bail petition on behalf of his client.

However, the judge of the district court rejected his bail plea and remanded him to ten days of police custody.

He was arrested late on Saturday evening from a Jharkhand-bound bus run by an inter-state bus service operator near Chan

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