The revelation comes in the backdrop of the arrest of Bengal minister Jyoti Priya Mallick by the Enforcement Directorate (ED) in connection with the alleged anomalies in the public distribution system (PDS) during the Covid-19 pandemic
Senior officers of the central investigating agency said they would get Mallick in their possession as early as possible and start questioning him after a team of doctors from the Command Hospital in Alipore checked his health condition
The owner of a PDS shop and a rice mill, Rahman was arrested on October 13 at the end of a search and raid operation for nearly 56 hours in Calcutta and adjoining areas in connection with alleged irregularities in the public distribution system in Bengal
A source said the BJP was planning a slew of political activities on the ground, starting from the gram panchayat level, to highlight how the alleged corruption model of the Trinamul Congress affected over six crore people who depend on the PDS
A three-time minister and believed to be close to Mamata Banerjee, Mallick is the fourth Trinamul legislator after Chatterjee, Manik Bhattacharya and Jiban Krishna Saha to be taken into custody by central investigating agencies in separate cases of alleged irregularities