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Bengal inquiry panel searches firms linked to ex-Kolkata mayor Hakim
A government inquiry team in West Bengal visited two company properties in Kolkata.
The companies are called Hakim Polymakers Private Limited and Hakim Chemicals.
The companies are said to be connected to former Kolkata mayor Firhad Hakim.
The team wanted to check information about the businesses and the land where a factory shed was built.
An official said the visit was prompted by a complaint about that plot.
The search lasted about an hour and a half.
The team said it found the information it needed.
Hakim did not comment on the visit.
A three-member West Bengal inquiry commission searched offices and a factory shed linked to two chemical-product companies in New Alipore, Kolkata.
The operation involving Hakim Polymakers Private Limited and Hakim Chemicals lasted about 90 minutes on Thursday.
A panel member said the search followed a complaint about the plot where the factory shed was built.
Hakim Polymakers’ website names Firhad Hakim as its founder, while records list him and Samir Ghosh as directors.
Firhad Hakim declined to comment; the inquiry official said the panel collected the information it needed.
- Who
- A three-member West Bengal government inquiry commission, involving retired Calcutta High Court Justice Biswajit Basu and ADG K. Jayaraman, searched properties linked to companies purportedly associated with Firhad Hakim.
- What
- The panel conducted a search and inspection of the office and factory shed of Hakim Polymakers Private Limited and Hakim Chemicals.
- Where
- A factory plot in New Alipore, southern Kolkata, West Bengal.
- When
- Thursday, September 3; the operation began around 12:30 p.m. and lasted about 90 minutes.
- Why
- The visit followed a complaint concerning the plot on which the factory shed was built and was also described as examining the businesses’ propriety.
Inquiry Panel’s Position
Hakim’s Position
Reason for the search
Inquiry Panel’s Position
The panel said the visit followed a complaint concerning the plot where the factory shed was built and that it collected the necessary information.
Hakim’s Position
Firhad Hakim refused to comment on the search, so no substantive response to the complaint was reported.
Business connection
Inquiry Panel’s Position
Publicly available company information links Hakim Polymakers to Firhad Hakim by naming him as founder and listing him as a director.
Hakim’s Position
The report describes the companies as purportedly co-owned or associated with Hakim but does not report an admission from him about the ownership claims.
Key facts
- Companies involved
- Hakim Polymakers Private Limited and Hakim Chemicals
- Location
- New Alipore, southern Kolkata
- Search duration
- About one and a half hours
- Panel chairman
- Biswajit Basu, a retired Justice of the Calcutta High Court
- Panel member secretary
- ADG K. Jayaraman
- Hakim Polymakers records
- The company website names Firhad Hakim as founder; records list Hakim and Samir Ghosh as directors.
- Company capital
- Hakim Polymakers had authorised capital of Rs 10 lakh and paid-up capital of Rs 1 lakh, according to ROC filings.
Quotes
An inquiry panel official
An official involved in the inspection panel’s search operation
“We have found the necessary information we had come to collect today.”
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Sources
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