The Enforcement Directorate also raided another apartment belonging to Arpita Mukherjee, a close aide of arrested West Bengal minister Partha Chatterjee, in Chinar Park area of the city late Thursday evening. An official gave this information.
The ED raided Mukherjee's flat a day after it recovered around Rs 28 crore in cash from another flat. The central agency has arrested the minister in connection with the probe into the school job scam. Last week, the ED had seized unaccounted cash worth over Rs 21 crore from another flat in the city. ) The apartment belonged to Arpita Mukherjee and we suspect that like her other flats, there may be cash deposits. We are talking to neighbors and trying to find out what kind of activities have been done here While the door was locked and the keys could not be traced, the agency had to open it in the presence of central force officials. Earlier in the day, during interrogation, Mukherjee gave them details of the Chinar Park property. are also ascertaining the value of several kilograms of gold ornaments confiscated from their flats. On the recommendations of the West Bengal School Service Commission (SSC) employees of Group-C and D as well as teachers in government-sponsored and aided schools The CBI is investigating on the directions of the Calcutta High Court into the alleged irregularities in the recruitment of Rs. The ED is tracking the money trail in the scam. Chatterjee, who was the education minister at the time of the alleged irregularities, was arrested on July 23. Earlier in the day, he was stripped of all his cabinet portfolios and party posts.