Sujay Krishna Bhadra appeared earlier than the ED earlier within the day after he was notified final week.
Kolkata:
The Enforcement Directorate (ED) on Tuesday night time arrested Sujay Krishna Bhadra for his alleged involvement within the unlawful appointments made in numerous state-run and aided faculties in West Bengal, an official mentioned.
Mr Bhadra, popularly generally known as “Kalighat er Kaku” (Uncle from Kalighat), was arrested following a 12-hour-long grilling by ED officers on the company’s workplace right here in reference to their ongoing investigation into the rip-off.
“He didn’t cooperate with our officers throughout at this time’s questioning. We tried so much to get solutions to some related questions related to the roles rip-off,” an ED official informed PTI over the cellphone.
Mr Bhadra appeared earlier than the ED officers earlier within the day after he was notified by the central investigating company final week.
He had earlier appeared a few occasions earlier than the CBI, which can be working a parallel investigation into the recruitment rip-off.
The Trinamool Congress declined to react to the arrest however questioned whether or not the arrest was part of diverting consideration from the political narrative of lone Congress MLA Bayron Biswas becoming a member of the TMC.
“Yesterday, solely lone Congress MLA Bayron Biswas had joined the TMC. The becoming a member of had led to panic within the opposition camp of BJP, CPI(M) and Congress. Possibly this arrest was made to divert consideration from that narrative,” TMC spokesperson Kunal Ghosh mentioned.
The BJP, nevertheless, mentioned that is probably the most vital arrest within the College Service Fee (SSC) rip-off to this point.
“That is probably the most vital arrest within the SSC rip-off to this point. The regulation is lastly inching nearer to nabbing the mastermind and the most important beneficiaries. The listing of TMC leaders concerned in corruption is lengthy,” state BJP spokesperson Samik Bhattacharya mentioned.
State Congress president Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury, too, mentioned the day will not be far when “high TMC leaders shall be behind bars”.
The ED has to this point arrested West Bengal’s former training minister Partha Chatterjee, his good friend, and several other different training division officers for his or her alleged involvement within the multi-crore rip-off.
The CBI has additionally arrested TMC MLAs Jiban Krishna Saha and Manik Bhattacharya in reference to the investigation. Mr Bhattacharya is a former president of the West Bengal Board of Major Schooling.
The TMC management had suspended Mr Chatterjee from the get together and sacked him from the state cupboard. The get together is, nevertheless, but to take any motion towards Mr Bhattacharya.
The CBI and the Enforcement Directorate are investigating the case and the alleged cash path concerned in it on court docket orders.
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