In the two cases involving the West Bengal ration distribution scheme and the cash-for-school job scam, the Enforcement Department has so far seized assets worth a total of Rs 411 crore.
The assets seized in the cash-for-school-job case are reportedly worth Rs 230.60 crore, which is more than the assets seized in the PDS case.
The principal targets of the seizures are the personal belongings and assets of the detained intermediary Prasanna Roy and former convener of the West Bengal School Service Commission’s (WBSSC) screening committee, Santi Prasad Sinha.
The total value of the assets that the ED has seized in the PDS case is approximately Rs 150 crore.
These assets are owned by Jyotipriya Mallick, the former minister of food and supplies for West Bengal, and three other detained suspects in the case: Shankar Adhya, Bakibur Rahman, and Biswajit Das.
The majority of the assets seized in both instances were either plots of land or apartments, some of which were even outside of West Bengal.
The ED has also seized some deposits from savings accounts and fixed deposits.
Two apartments owned by Jyotipriya Mallick, one in Kolkata and the other in Bolpur-Santiniketan in the Birbhum District, were among the items that the ED seized, according to sources.
