New Delhi, March 8 -- The Enforcement Directorate (ED) on Friday carried out searches at six places in West Bengal allegedly linked to "middlemen" in the State teacher recruitment scam.

The raids are underway since Friday morning as part of the ED's follow-up searches after the arrest of main middleman Prassana Kumar Roy, a close aide of former education minister Partha Chatterjee, who is languishing in judicial custody, sources privy to the development, told ANI.

The places searched by the agency sleuths included the Patharghata area. Among the places searched included a para teacher, Abdul Amin, at the Mazar Sharif intersection in Patharghata, Newtown, said the sources.

It is alleged that Abdul Amin is close to former Education Minis...