Overview
- Governor CV Ananda Bose’s approval on August 8 followed the ED’s sixth supplementary PMLA complaint filed on August 6 and its charge sheet submission on August 7.
- The ED’s charge sheet alleges Rs 1.5 crore in fictitious inward remittances to two of Sinha’s bank accounts between 2016 and 2021.
- ED officials seized Rs 41 lakh in cash and a mobile phone during a March raid at Sinha’s Bolpur residence.
- Sinha, the Trinamool Congress MLA for Bolpur, becomes the second Bengal minister to face PMLA charges in the primary teacher recruitment scam after Partha Chatterjee.
- Under PMLA protocol, prosecutions of sitting ministers require gubernatorial consent, a measure first used in May when the governor cleared charges against Chatterjee.