Partha Chatterjee
West Bengal Teacher Recruitment Scam: Minister Partha Chatterjee arrested
Kolkata: Enforcement Directorate officials on Saturday arrested West Bengal Minister and Trinamool Congress heavyweight Partha Chatterjee in connection with the alleged teacher recruitment scam in the state.
He was arrested after he was quizzed for more than 25 hours.
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. pic.twitter.com/i4dP2SAeGG
— ED (@dir_ed) July 22, 2022
He is being taken to the ED office in Kolkata.
ED recovers Rs. 20 cr cash after raids on West Bengal Minister Partha Chatterjee's aide
According to reports, he will be produced before the court later in the day.
The arrest occurred just a day after the Enforcement Directorate (ED) on Friday recovered Rs. 20 crores in cash from the house of an associate of Partha Chatterjee in connection with an alleged teacher recruitment scam in West Bengal.
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.
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
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.
Arpita Mukherjee, who has been mentioned as a 'close associate' of Partha Chatterjee by the ED, reportedly acted in some films.
Apart from Chatterjee, the ED also conducted raids on Minister of State for Education Paresh C Adhikary, MLA Manik Bhattacharya and others.
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