This is the third middleman arrested in the scam but the first by the ED. Two middlemen, namely Pradeep Singh and Prasanna Roy, were arrested by the Central Bureau of Investigation. Roy is the relative of former West Bengal Education Minister and Trinamool Congress Secretary General, Partha Chatterjee, who is currently under judicial custody for his alleged involvement in the scam.
The ED officials reached the residence of Chatterjee, who is currently the state Commerce and Industries Minister, at Naktala in south Kolkata at around 9 am on Friday and his questioning was going on till the filing of this report.
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