The raids were conducted by the Enforcement Directorate, which is probing the school jobs scam in West Bengal, late Thursday evening, an agency official said.
The raids were conducted by the Enforcement Directorate, which is probing the school jobs scam in West Bengal, late Thursday evening, an agency official said.
Enforcement Directorate (ED) raids third apartment belonging to Arpita Mukherjee’s close aide Arpita Mukherjee West Bengal minister Partha Chatterjee arrestedAfter recovering around ₹28 crore in cash from another flat of his in Chinar Park area of the city.
ED raid, which is School job scam money trail investigationwas held late Thursday evening, an agency official said.
As the door of the flat was locked and the keys could not be traced, the ED opened it in the presence of central force officials. “This (Chinar Park) apartment belongs to Arpita Mukherjee and we suspect that like her other flats, cash may be deposited here too,” the ED official said.
“We are talking to the neighbors and trying to find out what kind of activities were done here,” he said.
The details of the Chinar Park flat were provided by Ms. Mukherjee herself during her interrogation by the ED earlier in the day. In the intervening night of Wednesday and Thursday, the ED had raided a flat of Ms. Mukherjee in Belghoria area of the city and recovered a large quantity of gold and silver, besides about 28 crore unaccounted cash.
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The central agency had seized cash worth over Rs 21 crore from another flat of Ms. Mukherjee in Tollygunge area. The cost of gold jewelery weighing several kilograms is still being ascertained.
The CBI is probing alleged irregularities in the recruitment of Group C and D staff as well as teachers in government-sponsored and aided schools on the recommendations of the West Bengal School Service Commission, as directed by the Calcutta High Court.
Mr Chatterjee, who was the education minister at the time of the alleged irregularities, was arrested on 23 July. He was dropped from all his cabinet portfolios and suspended from the ruling Trinamool Congress on 28 July.