Highlights
- Calcutta HC directed ED to take Partha Chatterjee to AIIMS Bhubaneswar on Monday by air ambulance
- Court docket directed that minister be produced earlier than a particular ED court docket in Kolkata by digital mode
- The Bengal minister was arrested in reference to the varsity jobs rip-off
Partha Chatterjee, West Bengal minister who was arrested in reference to the varsity jobs rip-off, confronted a significant setback on Sunday because the Calcutta Excessive Court docket on Sunday directed the Enforcement Directorate (ED) to take the minister to AIIMS Bhubaneswar early on Monday by air ambulance.
The court docket directed that the minister be produced earlier than a particular ED court docket in Kolkata by digital mode at 4 PM on Monday. “The investigating company is directed to take the accused by air ambulance to AIIMS, Bhubaneswar within the early morning on twenty fifth July, 2022,” Justice Bibek Chaudhuri directed.
After listening to pleadings in a revision software moved by the ED difficult a decrease court docket order sending Chatterjee to state-run SSKM Hospital after his attorneys claimed he was in poor health, Justice Chaudhuri directed that the AIIMS, Bhubaneswar authority will medically study the accused by a staff of specialist medical doctors of cardiology, nephrology, respiratory medicines and endocrinology.
Case thus far
The ED’s money-laundering case stems from an FIR by the CBI, which was first directed by the Calcutta Excessive Court docket to research the alleged rip-off within the recruitment of Group ‘C’ and ‘D’ workers, assistant academics of lessons 11 and 12 and first academics. At the very least seven to eight ED personnel arrived at Partha Chatterjee’s Naktala residence in south Kolkata round 8:30 am and carried out searches until 11 am with CRPF personnel protecting guard exterior, a supply mentioned.
One other staff of the probe company’s officers visited Paresh Adhikari’s residence at Mekhliganj within the Coochbehar district and spoke to his relations, sources mentioned. Chatterjee held the training portfolio when the alleged rip-off was reportedly pulled off. He was interrogated by the CBI twice, as soon as on April 26 after which on Might 18.
(with PTI inputs)