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The Enforcement Directorate (ED) Director was successful Kolkata on Thursday (January 22, 2026), days aft West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee’s involution during ED raids at the Indian Political Action Committee (I-PAC) owner’s location and offices. Meanwhile, the ED has seized the properties of a Trinamool Congress person successful the teacher recruitment scam.
According to officials, ED Director Rahul Navin volition sojourn the determination bureau of the ED successful Salt Lake and volition interact with the unit to instrumentality enactment of the ongoing cases successful eastbound India. He volition besides reportedly look into safety and information concerns of their staff
The ED Director’s sojourn comes successful the backdrop of the ED raids astatine I-PAC co-founder Pratik Jain’s location and I-PAC offices successful Kolkata, which saw a high-level governmental turmoil successful the State since January 8.
The ED was reportedly conducting the raids successful narration to a coal scam in West Bengal. However, Ms. Banerjee claimed that the raids were “politically motivated to bargain enactment data”, adding that important information relating to the party’s strategy documents and campaigner lists were taken distant by the ED. She was besides seen leaving the raid premises with a greenish record successful her hand, which she did not transportation portion entering the area.
Property attached
Meanwhile, connected Wednesday (January 21, 2026), ED officials attached ₹57.78 crore worthy of immovable spot belonging to TMC MLA Jiban Krishna Saha in transportation with the West Bengal schoolhouse recruitment scam. The full attachment successful the recruitment scam cases present stands astatine ₹698 crore.
“The attached properties dwell of aggregate residential apartments, villas and onshore parcels located at Rajarhat, New Town, Patharghata, Garagari and different adjoining areas successful North 24 Parganas district, arsenic good arsenic Murshidabad and Purba Bardhaman districts, including HIDCO-developed areas of Kolkata. These properties were recovered to person been acquired out of the proceeds of transgression generated done amerciable appointments of Assistant Teachers successful Classes IX to XII,” an authoritative connection from the ED bureau said connected Wednesday.
In a related development, the West Bengal School Service Commission (WBSSC) published the database of implicit 11,000 teaching candidates who person been called for the interrogation in the caller hiring process for class 11-12 teaching posts. A full of 18,900 candidates were shortlisted for the process, of them over 11,000 have made it to the final list and the remainder are connected the waiting list.
The untainted teachers who mislaid their jobs successful the recruitment scam have shared alleviation arsenic galore of them person made it to the database again. However, they person criticised the repeated harassment they had to spell done to unafraid the aforesaid occupation twice.
“Many of the untainted teachers person besides been placed connected the waiting list. Many whitethorn suffer their jobs, which they already had,” Subhajit Das, a teacher who has been shortlisted for the interview, told The Hindu connected Thursday. He said they were surviving with a dense heart, as astatine slightest 1,200 of their chap untainted teachers had not been capable to walk the exams though they had worked arsenic teachers for implicit 7 years and were proven to beryllium ‘untainted’.
