New Delhi: Former Bengal education minister Partha Chatterjee has been arrested by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) in connection with the teacher recruitment case.
The arrest comes eight months after the probe agency filed supplementary chargesheets in four different cases in connection with the alleged bribe-for-job scam. Chatterjee was named as one of the prime accused in all four documents.
Chatterjee was arrested hours after the Supreme Court asked for a reply from the Enforcement Directorate (ED) on his bail plea in the case. As per an ANI report, the top court bench comprising Justices Surya Kant and Ujjal Bhuyan asked the ED to file a reply on the ex-minister’s bail plea.
ED arrested Partha Chatterjee in 2022
Chatterjee was arrested by the ED in July 2022 in the alleged West Bengal School Service Commission (SSC) teacher recruitment scam. In May this year, he was put in the Presidency Correctional Home. Earlier, the central agency had found over Rs 21 crore cash from the house of Arpita Mukherjee, an aide of Chatterjee. Over 20 mobile phones were also recovered from her house. The ED had suspected that the seized cash was the proceeds of the crime committed in the school service commission case. The search team had taken the help of bank officials in counting the seized cash.
TMC general secretary Abhishek Banerjee had then announced Chatterjee’s suspension. He had said that there would be zero tolerance for corruption. Investigating agency must complete the probe within the time limit, he had added.
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