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The Enforcement Directorate (ED) on Sunday continued its raids in connection with the alleged scam in the ration distribution system in West Bengal.
The agency teams carried out searches on the premises of Ankit India Limited in Uluberia and Domjur in Howrah district for nearly 27 hours and seized three bags of documents, sources said.
The raids were conducted at Ankit India’s warehouse at Domjur and a rice mill in Uluberia. The seized documents were brought to the agency’s CGO Complex office in Salt Lake. It is alleged that the company used to process and package flour for ration distribution and would sell it in the open market instead.
The ED has summoned Abhijit Das, former personal assistant of state Forest Minister Jyoti Priya Mallick, again on Monday. Mallick, who was remanded to 10-day ED custody following his arrest in the case recently, has been claiming that he had no knowledge of the scam and it was Das who knew about it.
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Mallick will be produced in court on Monday, officials said.
The ED is likely to seek an extension of Mallick’s remand, while he is going to apply for bail on grounds of being “innocent” as well as “sick”, it is learnt.
He has claimed that he was “a victim of a conspiracy”, accusing the BJP of framing him in a false case.
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