Bengal SSC Scam: Cash recovered from the house of Minister Partha Chatterjee's close friend in Bengal

New Delhi:

A team of investigating officers reached another house of Arpita Mukherjee, a close aide of Minister Partha Chatterjee, arrested in Bengal's teacher recruitment scam.

According to reports, a major seizure has been made from another house of Arpita Mukherjee in Kolkata.

A large amount of cash has been recovered.

Bank officials have been called to the spot.

Along with this, some other property documents have also been found.

ED has got cash from the shelves.

Bank officials have been called to the spot with note counting machines.

Earlier, the investigating agency had recovered Rs 20.9 crore in cash and documents of all the properties from a house of Arpita.

ED team entered Arpita Mukherjee's second house in Kolkata by breaking the lock, huge amount of cash recovered here too, bank officials with cash counting machines called pic.twitter.com/FAQA9plrvP

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When the officials of the investigating agency reached this flat, it was locked.

When the officers entered inside by breaking the lock, they were stunned to see the currency on a large scale there too.

Partha Chatterjee and Arpita Mukherjee are currently in ED custody till August 3.

Parth had to be admitted to the hospital by the officials of the investigating agency after his arrest.

He is constantly being questioned about the education recruitment scam.

The ED says that the money received from Arpita's house is the amount earned through education recruitment scam, which belongs to Partha Chatterjee.

However, when a question was asked about the resignation of Partha Chatterjee, a senior minister in the Bengal government, he got furious.

Parth says what is the need of this?

Chatterjee is currently in the custody of the Enforcement Directorate (ED) after his name surfaced in the teacher recruitment scam.

This question was asked to him outside the ESI Hospital in Joka, Kolkata.

In the morning, Chatterjee and his close aide Arpita Mukherjee were taken for a routine check-up before the ED's questioning.

The minister was taken to the hospital amid tight security and from there, about two hours later, the central agency took him to the ED office of the Sejou complex in the city's Salt Lake area.

Partha Chatterjee was asked, is he considering resigning from the post of minister, to this question, Chatterjee said, what is the need to resign?


The ED says that in connection with the investigation of irregularities in schools, the premises of Partha Chatterjee and Arpita Mukherjee were raided on Wednesday.

Raids are being conducted at some places including Rajdanga and Belgharia where Arpita's properties have been found.

"We have traced some of Arpita's flats in Belgharia and another flat in Rajdanga (in the southern part)," the ED officer said.

Officers are conducting searches there.


In Belgharia, the lock of one of Arpita's two flats was broken open, when its key was not found.

According to the ED, Arpita Mukherjee is cooperating in the investigation but the attitude of the minister is opposite.