The Enforcement Directorate on Tuesday summoned West Bengal minister Chandranath Sinha in connection with the teachers’ recruitment scam.
Sinha, whose house in Birbhum district was raided on March 22, was asked to appear before the probe agency on March 27.
Following the raids, the Enforcement Directorate officers seized several property-related documents, one mobile phone and over Rs 40 lakh in cash.
The state minister could not clarify why such a big amount of cash was kept at his residence, news agency PTI quoted an Enforcement Directorate official as saying.
“We have seized some property-related documents for the sake of our investigation. One mobile phone and over Rs 40 lakh in cash were seized. We have also asked some questions to the minister,” he said.
The central agency raided Sinha’s residence when he was at his ancestral house in Murarai, around 90 km away from Bolpur.
Source Agencies
