The Enforcement Directorate ( ED) has attached properties worth Rs 4.53 crore belonging to Bachcha Rai alias Amit Kumar, the main accused in the infamous Bihar topper scam. The attached properties also include assets belonging to family members of Rai.
According to the ED, the agency has attached a total of 29 plots located in Hajipur, Mahua and Bhagwanpur area. ED, in a press release, said that Bachcha’s 16 plots worth at least Rs 1.99 crore in lalganj, Mahua, Bhagwanpur and Hajipur in Vaishali district, three separate bank accounts with Bank of India’s Hajipur branch having deposit of Rs 13.46 lakh, two separate bank accounts with Canara bank and Punjab National Bank at Hajipur having deposits of Rs 20.8 lakh and 19.66 lakh respectively, were attached.
“Thirteen more plots worth at least Rs 1.05 crore in lalganj, Mahua, Bhagwanpur and Hajipur were attached along with a two-storey building worth at least Rs 18 lakh, one flat at Sarnaam Apartment in Mainpura locality of Patna worth at least Rs 20 lakh, three separate bank accounts with Hajipur branch of Bank of India, Canara Bank and Punjab National Bank having altogether deposit of Rs 17.24 lakh were also attached. All these properties were registered in the name of Bachcha’s wife,” ED sources said.
The action under the Prevention of Money laundering Act (PMlA) against the Secretary cum Principal of Vishun Roy College in Vaishali district, Bachha Rai alias Amit Kumar, comes at a time when two CBSE question papers of Class X and XII have leaked and police is looking for the culprits.
The scam had rocked Bihar in June, 2016 after Ruby Rai, a student of Vishun Roy College in Vaishali district who had topped in the arts category, failed to answer basic questions and went on to describe political science as prodigal science that taught cooking. This is the first attachment in the case and the ED said further probe in the case "is in progress."