Trinamool Congress (TMC) MLA Jiban Krishna Saha was reportedly caught trying to flee his home on Monday as the Enforcement Directorate carried out searches across multiple locations in West Bengal’s Murshidabad district. The raids are linked to the agency’s probe into alleged irregularities in the state’s school recruitment process, with ED teams searching Saha’s Burwan residence and his in-laws’ properties in Raghunathganj.
00:00Now more breaking news that's coming in at this given point.
00:04This is with regards to TMC MLA Jibon Shaha, who's now been arrested by the Enforcement Directorate.
00:10Enforcement Directorate arrests Jibon Shaha for not cooperating in probe.
00:15This is the big news that we are picking up at this given point.
00:19Jibon Shaha having been picked up by the Enforcement Directorate and this is for not cooperating in probe.
00:27This is the preliminary details that we in fact are bringing to you from West Bengal.
00:32TMC MLA Jibon Shaha having been in fact arrested.
00:39These are the details that we are bringing to you.
00:42Trinamul Congress MLA who had tried to flee.
00:46He was a politician who is now affiliated with the TMC and he was elected from the Barwan Constituency in Murshidabad District.
00:55And he's been involved in several scams and controversies.
00:59But right now, the recent raids that have taken place were in connection with the ongoing investigation into the teacher's recruitment scam.
01:07And in that very investigation, the recruitment scam investigation, which has been underway in West Bengal for the last couple of months now,
01:18it is being said that Jibon Shaha had not been cooperating in the very probe.
01:24And now, because of that, he has in fact been picked up by the ED.
01:28ED has come out to arrest Jibon Shaha at this point.
01:32This is the latest viewers that we are picking up. We are still awaiting details of the very arrest that's taken place.
01:41This is the recent raids that have taken place in the month of August itself.
01:45He attempted to flee the scene as well when the ED officials, and that is the reason why he's now been picked up.
01:51He tried to flee the scene when the ED officials who were accompanied by Central Security Forces had arrived at his house in connection with the ongoing money laundering probe related to the teacher recruitment scam.
02:02And Saha, in fact, tried to escape by scaling the boundary wall, but was caught in the nearby field by the ED officers in Central Forces.
02:08These are the preliminary details, viewers, again, as we repeat, and Tapos Sharan Gupta, in fact, continues to be with us to bring us more details into it.
02:15Tapos, help us understand what exactly was the situation.
02:20We are given to understand that he was trying to flee the scene when the ED, along with Central Security Forces, had reached his very place to raid it and to investigate the matter.
02:29He is, in fact, being said not to be cooperating in the very probe that's underway.
02:33Well, yes, absolutely, Jivon Krishnoshaha was earlier interrogated by CBI, and now the enforcement directorate team went to his residence early this morning, and marathon questioning was done.
02:50And while the officials entered into his house, he threw his mobile phone, and he attempted to escape from that very place by scaling the wall and trying to evade the officials.
03:02And immediately then, the security forces accompanying the officials caught hold of him, and then he was being questioned on multiple questions.
03:11And some implementing documents have also been seized, what our source is saying.
03:14And now he has been taken along with the enforcement directorate officials, and he has been arrested.
03:21That's what we have been given to understand.
03:22But more details are awaited because, as we speak, there are multiple other locations where similar raids are being carried out.
03:29And most of the raids are being carried out at the residences of his relatives because the enforcement directorate believed that there could be some incriminating documents that he must have hidden in those places or houses.
03:42So the raids are ongoing in other places as well.
03:45Earlier, the CBI had arrested him following his involvement in the teacher recruitment scam.
03:52And now the enforcement directorate have taken him in their custody, questioning him and trying to find the money trail.
04:01And hence, under the PMLA, he has been questioned.
04:03And now he is being taken by the enforcement directorate officials.
04:07Now, how he was benefited, whether anybody else was involved in this money trail, is something that the enforcement directorate is trying to find out.
04:15But sources say that he is not the only person.
04:18There could be other big fish in this entire scam.
04:22And he remains to be, Jeevan Krishnashara remains to be a crucial link.
04:25And henceforth, it is imperative for the agency to question him and seek more details as to who else were involved.
04:33And the enforcement directorate in future would try to establish the money source and money trail involved in this multi-crore teacher recruitment scam in Bengal.
04:42Back to you.
04:44Nayit, Tapash.
04:44Thank you for bringing us all those details with regards to Jeevan and why he has been arrested at this given point and the case that he is also being proved for.
04:55Remember, he was trying to flee and that is when he was caught by the ED team.
04:59That's all the details we have for you viewers at this given point when we speak of the very money laundering case in the teacher scam.
05:06Remember, it's a scam that, in fact, had rocked the state of West Bengal only a few months from now.
05:13It had teachers come out to the streets, all the SAC teachers come out to the streets and protest for months long for that matter in that very particular case.
05:23And now there is a full-fledged investigation on this.
05:28And then, right now, viewers, in fact, let me just quickly tell you this.
05:31On your screens is, we were just bringing to you Jeevan Shah's image itself.
05:37That very field where he was running and that's when he got caught by the ED and the Central Forces.
05:43You can see the Central Forces accompanying him, bringing him back.
05:46He, in fact, it's being said that he was trying to scale his boundary wall around his house.
05:52He fled to the fields.
05:55However, he was caught by the ED officers and the Central Officers.
05:58That's the very photograph of the TMC MLA Jeevan Shah that we are speaking of,
06:03who's now in the custody of the Enforcement Directorate.
06:08And the probe now continues.
06:09That's all that we have for you on this very story at this point.
