Kolkata, July 14 (IANS) The Enforcement Directorate (ED) has summoned the wife and two sons of Madan Mitra, the Trinamool Congress legislator from Kamarhati Assembly constituency in North 24 Parganas district, for interrogation in connection with the multi-crore municipality job scam case in West Bengal during the previous Mamata Banerjee-led regime.

Sources aware of the development said the names surfaced as the ED investigating officers were examining certain documents related to recruitment irregularities in the Kamarhati Municipality.

The three have been asked to appear at ED’s Kolkata regional office in the Central Government Office (CGO) Complex at Salt Lake on the northern outskirts of Kolkata next week.

In June this year, the ED officials conducted raids and search operations at Mitra’s two residences, one in Bhabanipur in South Kolkata and the other in Kamarhati in the northern outskirts of Kolkata. Mitra is a three-time party legislator from Kamarhati, first from 2011 to 2016 and subsequently from 2021 to date.

Simultaneous raids and search operations were conducted in June at seven other places in and around the state capital.

In October, 2025, the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) conducted a raid and search operation at Mitra’s residence in the same municipality’s recruitment irregularities case.

The CBI last week filed a chargesheet against former West Bengal Minister Sujit Bose and his son Samudra Bose in a special court of the Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA) in Kolkata in connection with the ongoing probe into the case.

The chargesheet also named Jyotishman Chattopadhyay, an IAS officer and two corporate entities linked to the minister and his son.

The ED officials first got information about the municipality job irregularities while conducting raids and search operations at the residence of Ayan Shil, a middleman involved in both the municipality job case and the multi-crore cash-for-school job case during the previous Trinamool Congress regime.

Later, CBI began an investigation into the matter following an order from the Calcutta High Court, and arrested Shil. The CBI and ED sleuths, who conducted parallel probes into the municipality and school job cases, traced unauthorised property worth over Rs 100 crore owned by Shil.

–IANS

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