According to the agency, Gahlawat demanded a bribe of ₹3 crore from the main accused, N. Raja alias Valliappan alias Rajasekhar, and had already received ₹1 crore.
The raid on Madan Mitra comes barely weeks after the ED arrested another senior TMC leader and former minister, Sujit Bose, in May 2026 in connection with the same recruitment scam.
The restoration of general sanction would enable the CBI investigations into offences by central government employees, central public sector undertakings (CPSUs), as well as private persons across West Bengal, without prior case-by-case approval.
The Supreme Court has registered a suo motu case into the death of 33-year-old actor-model Twisha Sharma following allegations of probe bias and evidence tampering.