Indranil Sen
They selected 24 pujas and sold tickets for entering those pandals. I had sent an email to Unesco in 2023. They called me up on Sept 23, 2025, and denied having any partnership with massArt for selecting pandals,” said Mukherjee, who appeared before ED on Sept 17. The sources said the investigators suspect that around 19,000 passes were sold in 2022, 34,000 in 2023 and 61,000 in 2024.
Kolkata/Singur: Enforcement Directorate (ED) on Tuesday raided two homes of singer Indranil Sen, who was a junior tourism minister in the erstwhile Trinamool govt, and many other addresses in connection with complaints of corruption linked to the alleged sale of Durga Puja “preview passes”. When asked about the ED raids, CM Suvendu Adhikari said, “Indranil Sen used to take a cut from singers’ payments”. Sources said “preview passes” for 24 Durga Puja pandals in Kolkata were sold through massArt at prices ranging between Rs 1,749 and Rs 5,499. None other than those having tickets were allowed to enter the pandals during that period (before the pandals were opened to the general public),” said Jaydip Mukherjee, who filed the police complaint. ED suspects financial irregularities of Rs 50 crore to Rs 60 crore linked to the sale of “preview passes”.
BJP refused to comment on the case. “massArt was running a cartel in Unesco’s name. “They claimed Unesco was their partner.