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West Bengal: LoP Suvendu Adhikari writes to ED director, I-T, Health ministry, alleges probe in purchase of PPE kits during Covid pandemic

IndiaTimes Sunday, 26 November 2023
Suvendu Adhikari, the Leader of Opposition in the West Bengal Assembly, has written to the Enforcement Directorate (ED), alleging a financial scam in the purchase of PPE kits and other medical equipment by the West Bengal Health Department during the Covid-19 pandemic. Adhikari has requested a probe by a central agency and highlighted the recent FIR registered by the ED in connection with an alleged scam in the supply of oxygen in Mumbai. The ED is expected to register an ECIR in this matter.
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