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KOLKATA: An afternoon after Trinamool Congress leader Mamata Banerjee accused the BJP of misusing central businesses in opposition to her celebration leaders, Enforcement Directorate (ED) sleuths arrived at former schooling minister and celebration secretary normal Partha Chatterjee’s area in Kolkata on Friday and interrogated him for just about 10 hours over alleged irregularities in recruitment of lecturers in colleges in the course of the Faculty Provider Fee.
The ED recovered Rs 20 crore from one of the crucial places, owned by means of a girl recognized to Chatterjee. “Throughout the process searches, the ED recovered Rs 20 crore money from the residential premises of Arpita Mukherjee. The sum is suspected to be proceeds of SSC rip-off,” ED said.
ED groups, comprising 80 body of workers, performed simultaneous raids at 13 places, together with homes of state minister Paresh Adhikari in Cooch Behar and previous consultant of SSC’s screening committee Santi Prasad Sinha.
Chatterjee, who’s now the trade and industries minister, has been interrogated by means of the CBI two times on this case.
Whilst he may just no longer be contacted, Adhikari stated, “I’m in Kolkata. I heard that ED officers reached my area however I don’t know the main points.’’
But even so, they performed simultaneous raids within the homes of former consultant of the West Bengal Faculty Provider Fee (SSC) Shanti Prasad Sinha, ex-president of the West Bengal Board of Secondary Schooling Kalyanmoy Ganguly and 9 others, the respectable stated.
The CBI, as directed by means of the Calcutta Top Courtroom, is having a look into the alleged irregularities dedicated within the recruitment of Workforce-C and D group of workers in addition to lecturers in government-sponsored and aided colleges on suggestions of the West Bengal Faculty Provider Fee.
The ED is monitoring the cash path within the rip-off.
“ED is wearing out seek operations at more than a few premises connected to recruitment rip-off within the West Bengal Faculty Provider Fee and West Bengal Number one Schooling Board,” the company stated on its respectable Twitter care for.
The company shared 4 pictures of piles of money within the denomination of Rs 2,000 and Rs 500 but even so various sealed packets within a room, with out disclosing the volume or the landlord of where.
ED resources, then again, stated that round Rs 20 crore in money and greater than 15 cell phones have been seized from the place of dwelling of a girl, a detailed affiliate of Chatterjee, within the town’s Tollygunge space following a raid there within the night, an respectable stated.
It’s learnt that she has acted in different Bengali, Odia and Tamil movies in recent times.
No less than 7-8 ED officers reached the Naktala place of dwelling of Chatterjee, the previous schooling minister, at round 8:30 am with a couple of CRPF body of workers maintaining guard outdoor.
They puzzled him for greater than 11 hours in regards to the alleged rip-off.
At one level of time, the senior Trinamool Congress chief complained of uneasiness following which a group of docs from the state-run SSKM Health center have been known as by means of the ED sleuths, a supply stated.
“An ECG used to be performed at the minister and his situation used to be strong,” stated the supply, who’s with reference to the minister.
Throughout the interrogation, ED officers took away cell phones of the minister’s non-public assistant in addition to the safety guards.
Chatterjee, lately industries and trade minister, held the schooling portfolio when the rip-off used to be allegedly pulled off.
He used to be interrogated by means of the CBI two times previous, as soon as on April 26 after which on Might 18.
Raids have been additionally performed on the place of dwelling of one in every of Chatterjee’s shut mates at Pingla in Paschim Medinipur district, an respectable of the ED stated, although he declined to remark whether or not the raid used to be in reference to the probe into the similar rip-off or no longer.
The company sleuths, who raided Adhikari’s place of dwelling at Mekhliganj in Cooch Behar district puzzled his members of the family together with his daughter Ankita Adhikari in his absence, he said.
Ankita lately misplaced her activity as an assistant trainer at a central authority faculty the place she used to be appointed in the course of the SSC two years in the past after it used to be discovered “unlawful” by means of the prime court docket.
Adhikari who had additionally been grilled by means of the CBI previous instructed newshounds in Kolkata he may just no longer get involved along with his circle of relatives over the telephone.
“They didn’t intimate us in regards to the discuss with to our area these days. I’m in Kolkata in reference to the July 21 Martyrs’ Day rally of the TMC. Had I been round, I’d have handled them to muri (puffed rice), he stated.
ED sleuths additionally performed simultaneous raids on the flats of former chairman of the West Bengal Board of Number one Schooling, Manik Bhattacharya, in addition to the board’s interim-president Ratna Chakraborty Bagchi, who may be its secretary.
The TMC described the concerted raids as a ploy by means of the BJP authorities on the Centre to bother political warring parties.
“This raid by means of ED, an afternoon after the impressive Martyrs’ Day rally that created ripples all over the place the rustic, is not anything however an try to harass and intimidate leaders of the TMC. The CBI has already interrogated them (ministers) as a part of a court docket directive and they’re cooperating. Now, the ED is being invoked handiest to discredit them. The cash laundering factor is being invented by means of the BJP,” senior TMC chief and minister Firhad Hakim stated.
The BJP, then again, alleged that the TMC aided large-scale anomalies within the recruitment strategy of lecturers on the number one, higher number one and secondary ranges since coming to energy within the state.
“TMC leaders and folks with reference to them duped lakhs of certified youths and passed over their jobs to ineligible ones. The CBI and ED are progressing at the proper trail. Extra skeletons will tumble out of the cabinet. The BJP has no function to play in the problem,” the saffron celebration’s nationwide vice-president, Dilip Ghosh, added.
(With PTI Inputs)
KOLKATA: An afternoon after Trinamool Congress leader Mamata Banerjee accused the BJP of misusing central businesses in opposition to her celebration leaders, Enforcement Directorate (ED) sleuths arrived at former schooling minister and celebration secretary normal Partha Chatterjee’s area in Kolkata on Friday and interrogated him for just about 10 hours over alleged irregularities in recruitment of lecturers in colleges in the course of the Faculty Provider Fee.
The ED recovered Rs 20 crore from one of the crucial places, owned by means of a girl recognized to Chatterjee. “Throughout the process searches, the ED recovered Rs 20 crore money from the residential premises of Arpita Mukherjee. The sum is suspected to be proceeds of SSC rip-off,” ED said.
ED groups, comprising 80 body of workers, performed simultaneous raids at 13 places, together with homes of state minister Paresh Adhikari in Cooch Behar and previous consultant of SSC’s screening committee Santi Prasad Sinha.
Chatterjee, who’s now the trade and industries minister, has been interrogated by means of the CBI two times on this case.
Whilst he may just no longer be contacted, Adhikari stated, “I’m in Kolkata. I heard that ED officers reached my area however I don’t know the main points.’’
But even so, they performed simultaneous raids within the homes of former consultant of the West Bengal Faculty Provider Fee (SSC) Shanti Prasad Sinha, ex-president of the West Bengal Board of Secondary Schooling Kalyanmoy Ganguly and 9 others, the respectable stated.
The CBI, as directed by means of the Calcutta Top Courtroom, is having a look into the alleged irregularities dedicated within the recruitment of Workforce-C and D group of workers in addition to lecturers in government-sponsored and aided colleges on suggestions of the West Bengal Faculty Provider Fee.
The ED is monitoring the cash path within the rip-off.
“ED is wearing out seek operations at more than a few premises connected to recruitment rip-off within the West Bengal Faculty Provider Fee and West Bengal Number one Schooling Board,” the company stated on its respectable Twitter care for.
The company shared 4 pictures of piles of money within the denomination of Rs 2,000 and Rs 500 but even so various sealed packets within a room, with out disclosing the volume or the landlord of where.
ED resources, then again, stated that round Rs 20 crore in money and greater than 15 cell phones have been seized from the place of dwelling of a girl, a detailed affiliate of Chatterjee, within the town’s Tollygunge space following a raid there within the night, an respectable stated.
It’s learnt that she has acted in different Bengali, Odia and Tamil movies in recent times.
No less than 7-8 ED officers reached the Naktala place of dwelling of Chatterjee, the previous schooling minister, at round 8:30 am with a couple of CRPF body of workers maintaining guard outdoor.
They puzzled him for greater than 11 hours in regards to the alleged rip-off.
At one level of time, the senior Trinamool Congress chief complained of uneasiness following which a group of docs from the state-run SSKM Health center have been known as by means of the ED sleuths, a supply stated.
“An ECG used to be performed at the minister and his situation used to be strong,” stated the supply, who’s with reference to the minister.
Throughout the interrogation, ED officers took away cell phones of the minister’s non-public assistant in addition to the safety guards.
Chatterjee, lately industries and trade minister, held the schooling portfolio when the rip-off used to be allegedly pulled off.
He used to be interrogated by means of the CBI two times previous, as soon as on April 26 after which on Might 18.
Raids have been additionally performed on the place of dwelling of one in every of Chatterjee’s shut mates at Pingla in Paschim Medinipur district, an respectable of the ED stated, although he declined to remark whether or not the raid used to be in reference to the probe into the similar rip-off or no longer.
The company sleuths, who raided Adhikari’s place of dwelling at Mekhliganj in Cooch Behar district puzzled his members of the family together with his daughter Ankita Adhikari in his absence, he said.
Ankita lately misplaced her activity as an assistant trainer at a central authority faculty the place she used to be appointed in the course of the SSC two years in the past after it used to be discovered “unlawful” by means of the prime court docket.
Adhikari who had additionally been grilled by means of the CBI previous instructed newshounds in Kolkata he may just no longer get involved along with his circle of relatives over the telephone.
“They didn’t intimate us in regards to the discuss with to our area these days. I’m in Kolkata in reference to the July 21 Martyrs’ Day rally of the TMC. Had I been round, I’d have handled them to muri (puffed rice), he stated.
ED sleuths additionally performed simultaneous raids on the flats of former chairman of the West Bengal Board of Number one Schooling, Manik Bhattacharya, in addition to the board’s interim-president Ratna Chakraborty Bagchi, who may be its secretary.
The TMC described the concerted raids as a ploy by means of the BJP authorities on the Centre to bother political warring parties.
“This raid by means of ED, an afternoon after the impressive Martyrs’ Day rally that created ripples all over the place the rustic, is not anything however an try to harass and intimidate leaders of the TMC. The CBI has already interrogated them (ministers) as a part of a court docket directive and they’re cooperating. Now, the ED is being invoked handiest to discredit them. The cash laundering factor is being invented by means of the BJP,” senior TMC chief and minister Firhad Hakim stated.
The BJP, then again, alleged that the TMC aided large-scale anomalies within the recruitment strategy of lecturers on the number one, higher number one and secondary ranges since coming to energy within the state.
“TMC leaders and folks with reference to them duped lakhs of certified youths and passed over their jobs to ineligible ones. The CBI and ED are progressing at the proper trail. Extra skeletons will tumble out of the cabinet. The BJP has no function to play in the problem,” the saffron celebration’s nationwide vice-president, Dilip Ghosh, added.
(With PTI Inputs)