The Enforcement Directorate (ED) on Saturday conducted searchesat 13 locations in Nadia’s Ranaghat and Haringhata, Bongaon in North 24 Parganas, Howrah’s Domjur, Sector V in Salt Lake and AJC Bose Road and Ballygunge in Kolkata in connection with the alleged ration scam. Several ED teams fanned out to rice mills, flour mills, offices, godowns, and houses of mill owners after getting leads from questioning arrested rice trader Bakibur Rahaman.The targets were shortlisted after matching the names mentioned byRahaman with those in the notebooks and a maroon diary seized from the home of Abhijit Das, the former personal assistant of state minister Jyoti Priya Mallick.
Mallick was questioned on Saturday about the entries in the notebook and the diary. ED sources indicated the minister said he had no clue about them as everything was handled by Das.