BIHAR FODDER SCAM ACCUSED ALSO ACTIVE IN BENGAL RATION SCAM: ED

The Enforcement Directorate (ED) probing the West Bengal ration scam has found that the alleged mastermind and prime accused in Bihar's fodder scam case three decades back who had admitted giving bribes to the then Bihar Chief Minister Laloo Prasad Yadav, have links with the ration corruption scam in West Bengal in which former Food & Supplies Minister Jyoti Priya Mallick has been arrested by the agency, sources said.

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ED sources claimed that Dipesh Chandak and Hitesh Chandak, two directors of Ankit India Limited, the company whose name came up in the ration scandal probe, were arrested by the CBI in 1996 as prime accused in the Bihar fodder corruption case. Later they were released after they turned approvers in that case. ED sources said that Dipesh Chandak had given a statement that he had given Rs 60 crore to the then Bihar Chief Minister Laloo Prasad Yadav.