Bengal SSC Rip-off Case LIVE Updates: The Enforcement Directorate (ED) interrogated West Bengal minister and Trinamool Congress (TMC) chief Partha Chatterjee and his alleged affiliate Arpita Mukherjee who had been arrested in reference to the varsity jobs rip-off and remanded to ED custody until August 3.
The company additionally issued summons to Manik Bhattacharya, TMC MLA and former president of the West Bengal Board of Secondary Schooling (WBBSE), for questioning in reference to the alleged irregularities in SSC recruitments.
Partha Chatterjee was on Tuesday morning dropped at Kolkata from Odisha after a go-ahead from AIIMS Bhubaneswar on Monday. Chatterjee was taken straightaway to the ED workplace on the CGO advanced in Kolkata, the place he was questioned.
In the meantime, amid rising opposition calls for for the trade minister’s removing from the state cupboard, Chatterjee’s official automotive, utilized by him for over 15 years, was on Tuesday deposited within the West Bengal Meeting.
LATEST UPDATES IN WEST BENGAL SSC SCAM PROBE:
-Partha Chatterjee’s Official Automobile Deposited in Meeting
Amid the rising calls for for the removing of arrested West Bengal Business Minister Partha Chatterjee from the cupboard, his official automotive, utilized by him for over 15 years, was on Tuesday deposited within the state Meeting, officers mentioned. Chatterjee, additionally secretary normal of the ruling Trinamool Congress, was allotted the automotive and a driver by the Meeting because the Chief of the Opposition in 2006.
After the TMC got here to energy in 2011 and he turned a minister, he continued to make use of the automotive and the motive force till the opposite day. His driver was verbally requested to return the automotive to the Meeting,” information company PTI quoted a senior meeting official as saying.
Meeting Speaker Biman Banerjee additionally confirmed the event however asserted that it doesn’t suggest something”. “The automotive was taken from the pool of automobiles owned by the Meeting. The motive force can also be an worker of the Meeting. As Partha Chatterjee is in custody and isn’t utilizing it, his driver has deposited it within the Meeting. I feel the motive force did it on his personal, however nonetheless, I’ll verify tomorrow,” he mentioned.
-ED Summons TMC MLA Manik Bhattacharya in Recruitment Rip-off Case
The ED on Tuesday summoned TMC MLA Manik Bhattacharya in reference to the SSC rip-off case, sources mentioned. Bhattacharya, who’s an MLA from Nadia district and the ex-president of West Bengal Board of Secondary Schooling, has been requested to depose earlier than the officers of ED at CGO advanced at 12 midday on Wednesday. ED has already carried out search operations in Bhattacharya’s residential premises on July 22 together with these of others allegedly concerned within the recruitment rip-off.
-Dial ‘M’ to Get Ghosted? Chatterjee’s 4 Calls to ‘Good friend, Thinker, Information’ Mamata Went Unanswered
At 2.32 am, 2.33 am, 3.35 am and 9.35 am – That is the log of West Bengal Minister Partha Chatterjee’s unanswered calls to Chief Minister and Trinamool Congress (TMC) chief Mamata Banerjee as he was being arrested by the Enforcement Directorate (ED) on July 23 in reference to the College Service Fee (SSC) rip-off. Learn extra
-ED Grills Partha Chatterjee, His Aide Arpita Mukherjee
The Enforcement Directorate (ED) on Tuesday grilled arrested West Bengal minister Partha Chatterjee and his alleged affiliate Arpita Mukherjee who had been arrested in reference to the varsity jobs rip-off.
Whereas Chatterjee was produced earlier than the particular courtroom by the digital mode as per a Calcutta Excessive Court docket order, Mukherjee, from whose home crores of rupees was allegedly discovered throughout a raid by the ED, was bodily produced earlier than it. The excessive courtroom had on Sunday directed that Chatterjee be taken to AIIMS, Bhubaneswar, for a medical check-up by specialists of varied departments on Monday.
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