The Enforcement Directorate attached 4 hotels, 2 flats in a money laundering case probe against an ex-IPS officer from Assam. File
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Four hotels in Guwahati and two flats in Mumbai worth ₹53 crore were attached in connection with a disproportionate assets-linked money laundering case against a retired IPS officer from Assam, the ED said on Saturday (June 27, 2026).
The action was taken against Prasanta Kumar Dutta, who retired from the Assam Police as a Deputy Inspector General in 2019, said the Enforcement Directorate.
The assets provisionally attached under the Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA) include four hotels in Guwahati and two residential flats in “Samartha Deep”, Andheri (West), Mumbai, the agency said.
The properties collectively were valued at ₹53.28 crore, it said.
The money laundering case stems from an FIR filed by the Assam Anti-Corruption and Vigilance Bureau, which alleged that Mr. Dutta, during his service period between 1992 and 2019, amassed assets disproportionate to his known sources of income.
The agency ascertained that Mr. Dutta and his wife amassed assets worth ₹79 crore, against a combined disclosed income of ₹7.23 crore and expenditure of ₹9.04 crore.
The ED alleged that Mr. Dutta laundered the money through three companies, one of them, Ishan Commercial.
The central agency claimed that during the 2022-23 financial year, the former police officer caused 3.70 lakh shares of Ishan Commercial to be transferred from the dummy and fictitious name-lending shareholders to himself, becoming the largest shareholder in the firm.
“It is to be noted that Ishan Commercial is the company which is the beneficial owner of three of the four hotels,” the ED said.
Published – June 27, 2026 07:30 pm IST
