NEW DELHI: Enforcement Directorate is in overdrive in Bengal forward of meeting polls with intensified actions since April 1 in not less than 19 instances of cash laundering, involving ministers, police brass and alleged key political conduits.The company on Monday summoned Rishi Raj, one of many administrators of I-PAC, the political consultancy engaged with TMCwhereas additionally summoning senior IAS officer Manish Jain, ex-principal secretary of state’s schooling division, for questioning in reference to SSC recruitment rip-off.One other director of I-PAC, Pratik Jainhas already been summoned a number of instances, escalating the probe into affairs of the high-profile political consultancy. Vinesh Chandel, the opposite I-PAC director, is at the moment in ED’s custody.The extraordinary scrutiny that I-PAC has been subjected to triggered hypothesis that the agency, essential for TMC’s ballot marketing campaign, has suspended its operations, main CM Mamata Banerjee to disclaim the identical. TMC mentioned the “baseless hypothesis” was meant to create confusion.On Sunday, ED searched the residence of Kolkata Police particular department DCP Shantanu Sinha Biswas, who’s being probed in a case of alleged pretend NRI quota admissions in non-public medical schools in West Bengal.IAS officer Manish Jain’s questioning comes quickly after raids have been carried out on the premises of Partha Chatterjee, ex-minister and a detailed affiliate of Banerjee. Biswas, together with ex-Jhargram collector Sunil Agarwal, is already beneath probe in sand mining cash laundering case and a coal mining “rip-off”. His shut affiliate Jay S Kamdar was arrested on Sunday, after ED accused him of getting hyperlinks with gangster Sona Pappu and involvement in “cross border and home hawala transactions”.