Four months after his arrest by the Enforcement Directorate (ED) in connection with the multi-crore ration distribution case in West Bengal, state Forest Minister Jyotipriya Mallick has finally been removed from his ministerial post.West Bengal .
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The West Bengal government on Friday removed Jyotipriya Mallick, behind bars for his alleged involvement in a multi-crore ration distribution scam, as the forest minister and allocated the department to Birbaha Hansda.
In October last year, Mallick was arrested by the central probe agency after marathon raids over alleged irregularities in the public distribution system (PDS) in Bengal.