ED recovers Rs. 20 cr cash after raids on West Bengal Minister Partha Chatterjee's aide

The ED raided Arpita Mukerjee's house from where they seized the huge stash of cash. The probe agency also seized electronic devices, 20 mobile phones and documents related to the scam, local media reports said.

As per media reports, the ED initially launched raids over 14 locations from where the officials seized a document having the name of Arpita Mukherjee following which her residence was raided.

Image of Arpita Mukherjee, from whose flat ED claimed to have seized Rs 20 cr in cash, with Partha Chatterjee went viral soon after the raid

Arpita Mukherjee, who has been mentioned as a 'close associate' of Partha Chatterjee by the ED, reportedly acted in some films.

UPDATE: Partha Chatterjee arrested by ED

The ED took it to Twitter to inform about the searches linked to the recruitment scams.

"ED is carrying out search operations at various premises linked to recruitment scam in the West Bengal School Service Commission and West Bengal Primary Education Board," the ED stated.

The search teams are taking the help of bank officials to count the cash through counting machines.

Apart from Chatterjee, the ED also conducted raids on Minister of State for Education Paresh C Adhikary, MLA Manik Bhattacharya and others.

Reacting to the ED raids, Bharatiya Janata Party's state unit chief Sukanata Majumdar tweeted: This is @MamataOfficial's Bengal model where cash stolen through illegal means in recruitment scams is coming out now."

"ED has seized Rs 20 crore from premises of Arpita Mukherjee, close aide of WB Minister Partha Chatterjee. Truly, TMC is breaking all records of corruptions," he stated.