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Accompanied by central forces, the ED teams conducted the raids at Salt Lake, Kaikhali, Mirza Galib Street, Howrah, and a few other places, he said.
The ones who are being questioned include businessmen and people closely related to those earlier arrested in the scam.
”These raids are connected to the ration distribution scam. We have got information about the involvement of these people after questioning those who have already been arrested in the case,” the ED official told PTI.
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Raids are underway at the businessman’s office in Sector V of Salt Lake and his two flats on EM Bypass, the official said.
The ED has arrested state forest minister Jyotipriyo Mallick, who was earlier the food minister, for his alleged involvement in the scam.
Sleuths of the agency have also been conducting searches to trace absconding TMC leader Shajahan Sheikh in connection with the scam.