ED arrests TMC youth wing leader Kuntal Ghosh

The Enforcement Directorate (ED) on Saturday arrested a Trinamool Congress (TMC) youth wing leader in connection with its probe into large-scale irregularities in the recruitment of teachers in West Bengal, officials said.

Kuntal Ghosh, TMC’s youth wing secretary, was arrested after he was questioned for hours by ED sleuths, who also searched his two flats in a high-end residential society at Chinar Park on Friday.

“He was arrested on Saturday morning and later was produced in court where the court sent him to ED custody till February 3,” said an ED official, requesting anonymity.

Ghosh illegally collected at least ₹30 crore from job seekers, the agency told the court.

The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) is probing the alleged irregularities in the recruitment of non-teaching staff (Groups C and D), as well as teaching staff by the West Bengal School Service Commission (WBSSC) and West Bengal Board of Secondary Education between 2014 and 2021.

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