- विज्ञापन -
Kolkata: The Enforcement Directorate (ED) on Wednesday announced that it has provisionally attached assets worth Rs 56.50 crore in connection with the multi-crore cash-for-school job case in West Bengal.
According to a statement issued by the ED, the attached property in the form of land parcels, commercial spaces, flats, and villas was owned by middleman Prasanna Kumar Roy, who was earlier arrested by the agency in the school job case.
This property attachment is in connection to the ED investigation in the case related to irregularities in the recruitment of non-teaching staff in Group C and Group-D categories in different state run schools in the state.
“ED has earlier attached properties worth Rs 163.66 crore in this case of Group C & D staff recruitment scam in the state of West Bengal and arrested Prasanna Kumar Roy (the main middleman involved in the collection of money and details from candidates) and Chandan Mondal (main agent of Prasanna Kumar Roy) and both are presently in judicial custody,” the ED statement said.
The statement has also claimed that in a related case about irregularities in appointments of secondary and higher secondary teachers in West Bengal, the ED officials had earlier attached properties worth Rs 238.78 crore.
