Overview

• The ED provisionally attached movable and immovable assets linked to three tea estates owned by Prasanna Kumar Roy after tracing bribe money used to secure illegal Group C and D appointments.
• Seized assets encompass bungalows, factories, industrial plants, machinery and vehicles acquired with illicit funds from undeserving candidates.
• In April, the Supreme Court annulled over 25,000 appointments through the West Bengal Central SSC, deeming the selection process irreparably ‘vitiated and tainted.’
• Middlemen Prasanna Kumar Roy and his associate Chandan Mondal remain in judicial custody as the Enforcement Directorate intensifies its investigation.
• Affected non-teaching staff have mounted sit-in protests in Kolkata demanding the release of lists categorizing ‘tainted’ and ‘untainted’ recruits and the restoration of their jobs.