The Enforcement Directorate (ED) on Tuesday carried out raids at as many as 10 places in West Bengal in reference to the alleged ration rip-off, officers mentioned.
A number of groups from the federal investigation company carried out raids on the residences of Sheikh Shah Jahan, Baqibur Rahman, Anisur Rahman and Barik Biswas, all of whom are jailed A detailed aide of former minister Jyoti Priya Malik.
The ED additionally raided the residence of Barik Biswas, who has been booked for smuggling cattle, coal and gold. His residences in Basirhat, Rajarhat and several other rice mills had been searched.
Officers suspect Biswas invested the large amount of cash earned from the alleged ration distribution rip-off into his bricklaying and gold enterprise. The ED additionally seized two luxurious automobiles belonging to Biswas throughout the raid.
The investigating company claimed that throughout the probe into the ration rip-off, they discovered that Jyotipria Malik continued the rip-off via a strong community, together with Biswas of Basirhat, Sheikh of Sandeshkari Shah Jahan and Baqibur Rahman of Deganga.
The ED additionally suspects that the community is concerned in numerous unlawful actions, together with land dealing and smuggling, other than ration corruption.
The investigation company’s search was geared toward accumulating paperwork associated to the hyperlinks between Sheikh Shah Jahan, Baqibur Rahman, Anisur Rahman and Barik Biswas.
In accordance with studies, the ED has obtained many paperwork involving Bakibur Rahman and Anisur Rahman.
The Enforcement Directorate (ED) had earlier mentioned that the dimensions of the rip-off involving West Bengal’s Public Distribution System (PDS) is a minimum of Rs 10,000 crore.
(Feedback from Dipak Debnath.)
