Partha Chatterjee, Arpita Mukherjee sent to 14-day judicial custody in Bengal recruitment scam case
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Partha Chatterjee and his aide Arpita Mukherjee have been sent to 14-day judicial custody in the Bengal recruitment scam case.
A special PMLA court has sent former Bengal minister Partha Chatterjee and his associate Arpita Mukherjee to 14-day judicial custody in connection with an Enforcement Directorate (ED) probe into the money trail in the School Service Commission appointments scam.
Partha Chatterjee and Arpita Mukherjee have been in ED remand since their arrest on July 23 over alleged illegal appointments of teaching and non-teaching staff in Bengal schools.
Chatterjee has been relieved of his ministerial duties by Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee, while Trinamool Congress has removed him from all posts he held in the party.
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Meanwhile, Arpita Mukherjee had told the ED that the mountain of cash recovered from her house belonged to Chatterjee. However, Chatterjee has asserted that he was a victim of a conspiracy and expressed unhappiness over TMC’s decision to suspend him.
Earlier, the ED had told the court that out of the 15 days that Chatterjee has been in its custody, at least two days were wasted owing to his admission to the state-run SSKM hospital here.
The ED has claimed to have recovered Rs 49.8 crore in cash, a huge quantity of jewellery and gold bars from flats owned by Mukherjee, besides documents of properties and of a joint company held by the two accused.
