The Enforcement Directorate (ED) on Monday attached bank deposits totalling Rs 16.2 crore along with some other assets of Knight Riders Sports Pvt Ltd, which owns the IPL franchise Kolkata Knight Riders (KKR), St Xavier’s College (Autonomous) and a company called Multiple Resorts Pvt Ltd as part of its probe into the Rose Valley scam.

The combined value of the attached properties — a one-acre plot in Kolkata’s New Town, a hotel on VIP Road near the airport, 24 acres at Ramnagar and Mahishadal in Bengal’s East Midnapore district and a flat in Mumbai — is Rs 53.9 crore, officials said.

Knight Riders Sports, of which actor Shah Rukh Khan ’s wife Gauri and fellow actor Juhi Chawla ’s husband Jay Mehta are directors, is under the scanner for a sponsorship agreement with the Rose Valley Group. Officials said Rose Valley, whose founder Gautam Kundu has been in jail since 2015, was KKR’s principal sponsor for seasons 5 and 6 of the IPL. Rose Valley paid the T20 cricket franchise Rs 11.8 crore in total during 2012 and 2013, they said.

Three bank accounts in the name of St Xavier’s College (Autonomous) were attached in connection with “a donation of Rs 96 lakh from Kundu for his son’s admission”, an official said. Knight Riders CEO Venky Mysore did not respond to a query from TOI. Fr Dominic Savio, the principal of St Xavier’s College, couldn’t be reached.

An official of the college claimed that the accounts attached by ED had been frozen three years ago. “What happened on Monday was a procedural formality. We have told the authorities that we want to return the amount that is under question by following due legal process,” he said. An account belonging to Multiple Resorts Pvt Ltd was attached in connection with Rose Valley’s acquisition of a resort against a payment of Rs 5 crore several years ago.

