ED raids contractor's house in North Tripura, 2003 batch IAS officer's involvement surfaces

Agartala, Nov 5 (UNI) The Enforcement Directorate (ED) reportedly carried out a raid on the home of contractor Sudip Paul in Uptakhali in North Tripura's Panisagar, which has led the probe into an alleged multi-crore fraud involving fake government tenders to supply rice and edible oil for Tripura's Mid-Day Meal Scheme. The raid followed allegations against Paul and Abhishek Chandra, a 2003-batch IAS officer from the Tripura cadre. Both are named as alleged conspirators in a detailed memorandum prepared by the West Bengal Special Task Force (STF). The STF report alleges that Paul helped bring investors into the supposed tender…