Kolkata Special Court Grants 5-day ED Custody To Santi Prasad Sinha

BY A STAFF REPORTER: The PMLA Court on Friday granted ED custody of five days to the former advisor of WBSSC Santi Prasad Sinha in the Assistant Teachers Recruitment Scam on April 5, Friday. 

The Enforcement Directorate arrested Santi Prasad Sinha in connection with Assistant Teachers Recruitment Scam. He was produced before the PMLA Court in Kolkata which subsequently granted him five-day custody till April 8. The Central Bureau of Investigation arrested Santi Prasad Sinha in August 2022. 

ED, Kolkata has arrested Santi Prasad Sinha, the then Advisor of West Bengal School Service Commission (WBCSSC), in Assistant Teachers Recruitment scam in the WBSSC in the state of West Bengal. He was produced before the Hon’ble Special Court (PMLA), Kolkata and the Hon’ble Court…

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Former State Minister and TMC MLA Partha Chatterjee is also accused in the same case. The CBI has charge-sheeted several WBSSC officials in the case.