KOLKATA: The Enforcement Directorate (ED) on Wednesday said it has provisionally connected immovable properties price spherical ₹57.7 crore in connection with its money laundering probe into irregularities in the appointment of assistant lecturers for courses 9 to 12, the agency said in an announcement.
With the unique attachment orders, the total tag of sources connected by ED in four cases in connection with the college recruitment cases rises to ₹698 crore, an announcement by ED said.
The statement said the properties connected by the ED belong to Trinamool Congress MLA Jiban Krishna Saha, the major middleman, Prasanna Kumar Roy, and his friends.
ED said Saha, who used to be allegedly indignant by the assortment and handling of proceeds of crime, used to be arrested on August 25, 2025. Investigation has established that he and his family allegedly sold sources price ₹3 crore in Murshidabad and Purba Bardhaman district of West Bengal from the proceeds of crime.
In step with ED, Prasanna Kumar Ray used to be the major middleman in the case, who still a neat sum of cash from candidates in change for appointment letters. It said many properties were additionally bought in the identify of Roy’s ex-well-known other and shut accomplice, Nilima Mangal Mangal.
The case pertains to neat-scale manipulation in the recruitment course of performed by the West Bengal College Service Price, whereby OMR sheets and persona check ratings were tampered with, and appointments were made to accommodate unfit candidates who paid bribes.
In Might perchance presumably well additionally 2022, the Calcutta high court docket ordered the Central Bureau of Investigation to probe the appointment of non-teaching workers (Neighborhood C and D) and teaching workers by the West Bengal College Service Price and West Bengal Board of Secondary Education between 2014 and 2021. The appointees allegedly paid bribes ranging from ₹5 lakh to ₹15 lakh to true jobs after failing the different exams.
