TDS Desk

A court in India has granted bail to Prashanta Kumar Halder, a fugitive banker and businessman accused in around three dozen cases of financial crimes in Bangladesh, has been granted bail in a money laundering case in West Bengal.

Apart from PK Halder, bail was also granted to his two associates – Swapan Mistry alias Swapan Maitra and Uttam Mistry alias Uttam Maitra.

Judge Prashant Mukherjee of the Enforcement Directorate (ED), a law enforcement and economic intelligence agency of India, granted them bail today (20 December).

PK Halder was arrested from a hotel in West Bengal in 2022.