ED arrests Bengal former minister Sujit Bose over municipal recruitment scam
Telegraph | 11 May 2026
Former fire services minister Sujit Bose arrested in connection with municipal recruitment scam. Bose and his son Samudra were summoned for interrogation by the enforcement directorate on Monday.
On Monday Sujit was interrogated for more than seven hours.
This is the first arrest of a high-profile minister in the Trinamool government since the change of guard in West Bengal.
Alleged institutionalised corruption was one of the major poll planks of the BJP in last month's Assembly polls. Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Union home minister Amit Shah made multiple references to Trinamool's alleged corruption.
After his first cabinet meeting on Monday morning, chief minister Suvendu Adhikari had said the new government will take all steps to weed out corruption from the administration.
During the 15 years of Trinamool rule, several ministers, MLAs and key government officials were interrogated and arrested including the school teachers' recruitment scam and coal and cattle-smuggling.
Sujit, the former Bidhannagar MLA and vice-chairman of the South Dum Dum municipality, was summoned and appeared before the ED on May 1.
Earlier Sujit had evaded summons issued by the central agency which probes money trail in corruption cases citing he was busy with the election campaign.
The CBI which had probed the municipal recruitment scam probe had claimed municipal jobs were handed in exchange of cash, similar to what had happened with the recruitment of primary teachers in the state.
ED had asked Sujit to provide documents related to his properties and wealth.
The ED and CBI have been actively probing an alleged recruitment scam involving illegal appointments in over 60 Bengal municipalities, with over 600 jobs suspected to be fraudulent. Bose and other officials have been questioned, with investigators alleging a nexus with businessman Ayan Sil.