Kolkata, Dec. 20 -- The Special Investigation Team (SIT) probing the Salt Lake Stadium violence during Argentina's World Cup winning captain Lionel Messi's visit, on Saturday freezed chief promoter Satadru Dutta's bank account of Rs 22 crore, it informed the Bidhannagar court.
The SIT during search operation at Dutta's Rishra home in Hooghly district on Friday seized luxury assets, incriminating documents and several bank passbooks and examined the alleged financial irregularities amounting upto Rs 100 crore.
The search was conducted following widespread allegations of gross mismanagement in the stadium and financial irregularities linked to the event. Police said the search operation was a "procedural" move to examine the documents and a...