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This is an archive article published on April 16, 2023
CBI search at TMC MLA’s premises, 5 places continues
The raids started in Murshidabad, Purba Medinipur and Kolkata districts on Friday.
CBI officials outside MLA Jiban Krishna Saha’s premises in Kolkata on Saturday. (Express Photo)
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CBI search at TMC MLA’s premises, 5 places continues
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The CBI on Saturday continued searches at six places across West Bengal, including the premises of Trinamool Congress (TMC) MLA Jiban Krishna Saha, in connection with the teachers’ recruitment scam case.
The raids started in Murshidabad, Purba Medinipur and Kolkata districts on Friday.
Besides MLA Saha’s premises in Murshidabad, the central agency raided houses of alleged middleman Gopal Dalapati in East Midnapore and Bibhas Chandra Adhikary, chairperson of Thakur Anukul Chandra Satsang Mission Sadhanpith Trust in Birbhum.
Saha represents the Burwan constituency in Murshidabad district. The CBI also searched a flat of Adhikari, who runs B.Ed and D.El.Ed colleges in Kolkata and Birbhum, in Kolkata.
A CBI official said, “Searches were conducted at six places in Kolkata, Purba Medinipur, Birbhum districts belonging the trust chairperson running B.Ed and D.El.Ed colleges in Birbhum and Kolkata and also at the premises of another person at Purba Medinipur. Incriminating documents, including the ones concerning primary teachers’ recruitment, were recovered.”
“These people acted as conduits between the aspiring candidates and other accused,” the CBI said in a release on Saturday.
It further said, “The search that started yesterday on the premises of the Burwan MLA is still underway. Yesterday, five bags containing documents were recovered from the bushes adjacent to the boundary wall of his residence. The documents had photographs of aspiring candidates who had paid bribes. The bribe collected from the candidates is estimated to be in crores of rupees.”
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