West Bengal : Arrested Partha Chatterjee said on dismissal from cabinet and suspension from TMC, time will tell…
Trinamool Congress leader Partha Chatterjee, who was arrested by the Enforcement Directorate (ED) in the teacher recruitment scam in West Bengal, has said that Somoy-e-Bolbe (only time will tell) on the decision to sack him from the cabinet. Mamata Banerjee sacked her from the cabinet after the ED recovered a stock of notes from the flats of Arpita Banerjee, an aide of Partha. Along with this, the party has also suspended him from all posts.
Partha Chatterjee was dropped from the departments of Commerce and Industry, Parliamentary Affairs, Information Technology and Electronics, and Public Enterprises and Industrial Reconstruction in the state cabinet on Thursday 28 July. Significantly, on the directions of the Kolkata High Court, the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) is investigating the alleged irregularities in the recruitment of Group ‘C’ and ‘D’ class staff and teachers in government aided schools on the recommendation of the West Bengal School Service Commission. has been At the same time, the ED is probing the money laundering angle in the scam. Partha Chatterjee was the education minister of the state when the alleged scam happened.
Around Rs 50 crore recovered
The ED raided another apartment belonging to Arpita Mukherjee, a close aide of West Bengal minister Partha Chatterjee, in the city’s Chinar Park area late on Thursday evening. The ED raided Mukherjee’s flat a day after it recovered around Rs 28 crore in cash.
The central agency has already arrested Mukherjee in connection with the probe into the alleged school recruitment scam. Last week, the ED had seized unaccounted cash worth over Rs 21 crore from another flat in the city. In the raids so far, the ED has recovered around Rs 50 crore.
ED talking to neighbors
The ED official said that this (Chinar Park) apartment belongs to Arpita Mukherjee and we suspect that like her other flats, cash may be deposited here too. We are talking to the neighbors and trying to find out what kind of activities have been done here.
