The Enforcement Directorate’s Kolkata unit has provisionally seized immovable assets totaling ₹57.78 crore in connection with the massive West Bengal SSC assistant teacher (classes 9-12) recruitment irregularities. Invoking PMLA 2002, the agency targeted holdings of politician Jiban Krishna Saha, fixer Prasanna Kumar Roy, and associates.
Properties under attachment range from upscale apartments and villas in Rajarhat, New Town, and Kolkata to lands in Patharghata, Garagari, Murshidabad, and Paschim Bardhaman. Forensic financial trails proved these were acquired with dirty money from the scam.
CBI’s court-mandated FIRs laid the groundwork for ED’s money laundering inquiry. Revelations painted a picture of institutionalized cheating: manipulated answer sheets, inflated interview marks, and sneaky appointments of rejects.
At the scam’s heart was Roy, who ran a lucrative brokerage, pocketing vast bribes and cycling cash through firms and banks into bricks-and-mortar investments. Saha, arrested while trying to escape ED raids on August 25, 2025, facilitated similar rackets across job categories, splurging ₹3.01 crore on family realty.
Roy’s ex-partner Neelima Mangal held additional scam-funded assets. Having nabbed and chargesheeted Roy, ED now intensifies its net.
Contextualizing the scale, this joins ₹247.2 crore frozen in SSC Group C/D, prior ₹238.78 crore in this very scam, and ₹154 crore from primary teacher graft—pushing ED Kolkata’s tally to ₹698 crore. Such enforcement underscores zero tolerance for recruitment rackets undermining meritocracy.