Subhechcha Ganguly 
The court has been requested by the Enforcement Directorate to seize an additional 101 properties owned by Jyotipriya Mallick and his friends. Former West Bengal food minister Jyotipriya Mallick was detained by the federal agency in October of last year in relation to an alleged ration distribution fraud. The Enforcement Directorate (ED) has since attached two of her residences.The ED has temporarily attached a number of assets with a book value of ₹50.47 crore that were purportedly obtained with the proceeds of crime from the ration scam. These properties are considered to be worth much more than ₹150 crore on the market, the agency said in a statement.
48 immovable properties owned by different people and organisations are included in the attached assets; these properties include Mallick’s residential homes at Salt Lake, close to Kolkata, and Bolpur in the Birbhum region. The ED has petitioned the court to seize 101 more of Mallick and his accomplices’ properties.Based on many FIRs that the state police had filed between 2020 and 2022, the ED began looking into the claimed scam in 2023.
