Primary Recruitment Scam: There is no sign of respite for former Bengal education minister Partha Chatterjee, who is accused of being one of the ‘wannabes’ of an illegal recruitment cycle in exchange for money in the education sector, the ED told Trinamool Youth leader Kuntal Ghosh on Saturday. was arrested. A case has been registered in connection with illegal recruitments in government primary schools in his Chinar Park apartment. After a preliminary probe, the ED or Enforcement Directorate claimed that Ghosh gave around Rs 15 crore to the former minister.
According to sources, Ghosh broke down during interrogation and apart from confessing his involvement in accepting money for arranging illegal recruitment, he also revealed that a major part of the income collected by him was passed on to Chatterjee. He also named one Gopal Dalpati as a witness to the handing over of the money to Chatterjee. Ghosh’s confession became another strong point in the central agency’s counsel’s argument for extension of Chatterjee’s judicial custody.
According to Kuntal Ghosh’s statement, he handed over the money to the former minister’s personal secretary, sometimes at Chatterjee’s Naktala office, and sometimes at a restaurant in a shopping mall near his residence. Ghosh was interrogated following a statement given to the CBI by Tapas Mandal, president of the All Bengal Teachers Training Achievers Association (ABTTAA), an umbrella organization of private teacher training institutes in West Bengal, in which Ghosh was accused of huge Got Rs. 19 crore scam in different stages
Shantanu Banerjee, another ruling party youth leader close to Trinamool Congress youth leader Kuntal Ghosh, was summoned on Wednesday. According to sources in the investigating agency, they have received information that Shantanu is also involved in the SSC recruitment scam. Shantanu’s house in Hooghly was raided and several documents related to a recruitment scam were recovered. Tapas Mandal was also called on the same day. ED sources claim that Tapas and Shantanu were interrogated for a long time in front of Kuntal Ghosh. That question session was also videographed.