Calcutta: The Enforcement Directorate (ED) attached properties worth over ₹27 crore of Prasanna Roy, who was allegedly involved in irregularities in recruitment in the school service commission selection tests in 2016 and acted as a middleman, allegedly collecting money from candidates appearing for Group C and Group D posts to the tune of several crores.

ED, which is probing the money trail in the irregularities in recruitment, attached Roy’s three tea estates.

“The attached properties consist of bungalows, factory, plants and machinery. These properties were acquired from the cash collected
from undeserving candidates for their illegal appointments as Group-C and D staff,”
the ED said.

The CBI, which is also probing the irregularities, had arrested Roy in 2022 for his alleged role as a link between prospective candidates and former education minister Partha Chatterjee, now in jail custody.