Overview

• Trinamool councillor Maya Saha, the arrested MLA’s aunt, was questioned in Kolkata for nearly seven hours, submitted bank and property documents, and said she had no role in corruption.
• ED officials also questioned her husband, and she said they provided records of their savings and assets and could be called again if required.
• The latest questioning follows the August 25 arrest of MLA Jiban Krishna Saha in Murshidabad, after which a Kolkata PMLA court sent him to six days of ED custody following an alleged escape attempt and recovery of a discarded phone.
• Investigators report detecting about Rs 46 lakh in transfers linked to the MLA, including Rs 26 lakh to his wife Tagori and Rs 20 lakh to his father, with around Rs 50 lakh deposited in parts between 2019 and 2021.
• ED says it raided relatives’ residences, including Maya Saha’s, and traced properties in a driver’s name as part of a PMLA case stemming from a Calcutta High Court–ordered CBI FIR that has already produced four charge sheets and several arrests.