An unspecified number of cartridges were seized during a search of three residences of arrested former CPI(M) minister Sushanta Ghosh in West Midnapore district and Kolkata on Saturday, police sources said.
The cartridges were found from the Benchapra residence in West Midnapore from near where seven skeletons were dug up from a pit on June two, while another residence at Chandrakona in district and one at D.L. Khan Road in Kolkata were also searched, the sources said.
A nine-member CID team led by the investigating officer in the case Purnashree Mukherjee searched the residence at Benachapra and the one at Chandrakona, the sources said. The CID team took the former minister's wife, Karuna, and brother-in-law, Aurobindo Bandhopadhay, from their Chandrakona residence to Benachapra for questioning, they said.
The Benachapra residence was being guarded by the police. In Kolkata, Ghosh, the sitting CPI(M) legislator of Garbeta, was questioned at the CID headquarters at Bhavani Bhavan for the second consecutive day.