New Delhi: Trinamool Congress (TMC) MLA Manik Bhattacharya was on Tuesday arrested by the Enforcement Directorate (ED) in connection with the multi-crore teacher recruitment scam in West Bengal.
Earlier in June this year, Manik was removed from his post by the Calcutta high court for his alleged involvement in the scam in June this year.
Bhattacharya is the second TMC legislator to be arrested by the ED in connection with the scam.
Earlier, the federal agency had arrested Partha Chatterjee, former state education minister.
In May, the Calcutta high court ordered the CBI to probe the illegal appointment of non-teaching staff (Group C and D), and teaching staff by the West Bengal Central School Service Commission and the West Bengal Board of Secondary Education.
The ED started a parallel probe into the money laundering. The ED has already filed its first chargesheet in the case in September.
