The cash, residents have been informed, belonged to Arpita Mukherjee, Partha Chatterjee’s shut aide. Each have been arrested by the ED. Officers had additionally procured a number of machines to depend the seized notes of Rs 2,000 and Rs 500 denominations. They added as much as over Rs 21 crore. The raid—a part of the probe into the SSC rip-off—had begun 16 hours earlier on Friday.
Residents stated that they had been seeing Mukherjee for eight-nine years. “She walked on the compound each day. She had entry to 2 extra flats on the 18th flooring in the identical tower. We additionally knew she had entry to VVIPs. However what stood out was she had employed two assist to care for her canine. We have no idea if she owned all of them,” stated a resident of Tower 3. One other actor, who’s a neighbour, declined to remark.
The information of the haul—Rs 21.2 crore in money, Rs 79-lakh gold, Rs 54-lakh foreign exchange and 22 mobiles to this point—drew scores of onlookers to the condominium gates.
“Persons are coming to see the money and the one who reportedly stashed it. It’s not the publicity we deserve, given a number of the finest minds of society reside right here,” stated Anjan Kumar Biswas, a resident. “I’ve seen the media splash her social media images. Some present her performing yoga on these lawns,” stated one other resident.
Mukherjee’s lawyer stated he was not given the arrest memo when he went to fulfill his shopper on Saturday. “I sought an arrest memo and seizure checklist from ED however they refused. I can inform you the fees solely after getting an FIR copy,” stated Neeladri Bhattacharya.
Round 5.30pm, ED officers began bringing down the loaded trunks—15 out of the 20 have been used. Round quarter-hour later, round 6pm, Mukherjee was delivered to the gate to be taken to the ED workplace. Even after 22 hours of questioning, Mukherjee appeared defiant. She claimed she was harmless and was being framed by the BJP. “We hope fact prevails,” stated a resident.
Watch ED seizes Rs 20-cr money after raids on premises of Bengal minister Partha Chatterjee’s aide Arpita Mukherjee