Arrested senior Trinamool Congress leader Partha Chatterjee may have called his party supremo and West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee after she was arrested late on Saturday night. Several reports have suggested that the West Bengal Minister of Industries, Commerce and Enterprise had called his boss several times to inform about his arrest, to which no response was received.
Partha Chatterjee The arrest was made by the Enforcement Directorate (ED) on Saturday, July 23, after the agency raided over a dozen places on Friday and recovered cash value. 21 crores. The ED has also arrested Parth’s close aide actress Arpita Mukherjee.
According to the memorandum of arrest federal agencyChatterjee was arrested at 1:55 am on Saturday morning after questioning since Friday morning. He called the party chief at least four times between 2:32 pm and 9:35 pm Hindustan Times.
“He called her but he did not pick up her phone. Another chance was given, but then he did not pick up the phone,” the central agency’s arrest memo said.
The memo states that Chatterjee called his party supremo and West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee for the first time at 2:32 am. Soon after, another call was made at 2:33 am. He called her again after a gap of one hour at 3:37 pm. The last call was made around 9:35 am.
“I tried calling her (Mamata Banerjee). But I could not contact him.
While sitting in the car the day he was arrested, journalists asked the arrested minister whether the West Bengal CM had been informed by Ed about his detention, to which Chatterjee confirmed that he did not call him. raised.
The arrest memo, signed by an officer of the rank of assistant director of the investigating agency, also mentions that Chatterjee refused to receive the arrest memo.
Meanwhile, Kolkata Mayor and TMC leader firhad hakimo ED has denied the claim, citing the fact that Partha Chatterjee’s phone was with Ed and he could not possibly make any calls. “I don’t know what the ED or Chatterjee has said. But how can he call? The first thing they (officers of central agencies) do during such raids is that they confiscate mobile phones so that no calls can be made. I have faced it,” said Firhad Hakim. The mayor of Kolkata was arrested by the CBI in 2021 in the Narada sting operation case.
The ED on Sunday told the Calcutta High Court that searches at Chatterjee’s house and 27-hour-long interrogation yielded “enough evidence” in support of his involvement in the teacher recruitment scam. ‘Adequate evidence’ was also collected which suggests that Arpita Mukherjee was a close aide of Chatterjee.
The ED also pointed out that the TMC minister was ‘excusing his illness’ and behaving like a ‘don’ after being shifted to the government-run SSKM hospital. Thereafter, the Calcutta HC ordered that the minister should be taken to AIIMS Bhubaneswar in an air ambulance where specialist doctors would treat him.
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