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The Enforcement Directorate has seized Rs 40 lakh in cash from the residence of West Bengal Cabinet Minister and Trinamool Congress leader Chandra Nath Sinha. Everything is back to normal after a marathon raid linked to a teacher recruitment scam ended on Friday night.
According to Enforcement Directorate sources, Sinha could not explain the source of the cash. Federal agencies also seized the minister’s cellphone to extradite evidence.
The Enforcement Directorate conducted raids in connection with teacher recruitment scams at various locations in Bangladesh, including Chandranath Sinha’s residence in Bolpur, Birbhum district. Five members of the federal agency entered the minister’s residence at 9 a.m. on Friday and the search operation, which included searches in other areas, lasted about 13 hours and ended at 10:30 p.m. on Friday.
Raids were also conducted in Kolkata in connection with the case.
The ED team recovered a register from Trinamool Congress youth wing leader Kuntal Ghosh in which the name of Chandranath Sinha was mentioned. Ghosh was earlier arrested by federal agencies in connection with the teacher recruitment scam.
Sources in the education ministry told India Today that crores of rupees were transacted in the teacher recruitment scam and they believe the amount was transferred to different locations but is yet to be recovered.
On March 8, a team of the Enforcement Directorate raided various locations in Bengal, including Dum Dum in North 24 Parganas district, in connection with the scam.
Earlier, former Bengal Education Minister Partha Chatterjee and others associated with the education department were arrested in the teacher recruitment scam.
The teacher recruitment scam involves over Rs 100 crore, according to the CBI, which alleged that the Trinamool Congress collected funds from job seekers between 2014 and 2021 to hire them as teachers and staff in government schools across Bengal. The case, dated back to 2022, relates to the appointment of teaching and non-teaching staff in the West Bengal School Service Commission and the West Bengal Board of Secondary Education. The appointees allegedly paid Rs 5 to 15 lakh to the tribals for their work after failing the entrance examination.
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