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  • None can do any hurt to TMC, says jailed ex-minister Partha Chatterjee

    By means of PTI

    KOLKATA: Suspended TMC chief Partha Chatterjee, who’s in prison for his alleged involvement in a college recruitment rip-off, claimed on Monday that none can do any hurt to the Mamata Banerjee-led birthday party, indicating that he used to be nonetheless seeking to curry favour with its management.

    The previous Bengal minister, who used to be arrested on July 23 following restoration of money, jewelry and assets deeds from his alleged shut affiliate, prayed for his bail earlier than a unique CBI courtroom, which has reserved its order.

    The CBI is probing the recruitment rip-off on instructions of the Calcutta Top Court docket, and the Enforcement Directorate is having a look into the cash path related to the case.

    As Chatterjee were given off a car for his courtroom listening to, he used to be requested by means of newshounds to touch upon Chief of Opposition in Bengal Suvendu Adhikari’s statement that the times of the TMC are numbered and “main tendencies involving its leaders are at the playing cards in December”.

    The suspended chief used to be fast to respond that “none can do any hurt to the TMC; none can injury TMC’s potentialities”.

    The ruling birthday party in Bengal had got rid of Chatterjee from the state cupboard and all birthday party posts, but even so postponing him, in a while after he used to be arrested in July.

    Distancing the birthday party from Chatterjee, TMC state spokesperson Kunal Ghosh, when requested about his remark, mentioned the TMC does now not want Chatterjee’s certificates and has no relation with him.

    Ghosh, alternatively, asserted there’s no danger to the TMC, and BJP leaders are making absurd claims.

    But even so Adhikari, BJP state president Sukanta Majumdar claimed on events that “the downfall of Mamata Banerjee authorities will start from this month (December).”

    The TMC spokesperson, chatting with newshounds, mentioned, “Leaders like Suvendu Adhikari and Sukanta Majumdar haven’t any relevance, and they’re making such claims simply to stay in them information.

    Other folks of Bengal are with the TMC and we all know that,” he mentioned.

    BJP spokesperson Samik Bhattacharya claimed that Chatterjee, former Faculty Provider Fee adviser SP Sinha and others arrested in reference to the case had simply “adopted directions of the highest management”.

    “Partha had at all times adhered to the programmes of the birthday party.

    Therefore it isn’t sudden that he’s nonetheless talking in the similar voice as TMC,” Bhattacharya instructed PTI.

    Chatterjee held the schooling portfolio between 2014 and 2021 when the irregularities in recruitment of training and non-teaching body of workers in state government-sponsored and -aided faculties had allegedly taken position.

    He held a number of portfolios, together with Business and Trade, throughout the time of his arrest.

    KOLKATA: Suspended TMC chief Partha Chatterjee, who’s in prison for his alleged involvement in a college recruitment rip-off, claimed on Monday that none can do any hurt to the Mamata Banerjee-led birthday party, indicating that he used to be nonetheless seeking to curry favour with its management.

    The previous Bengal minister, who used to be arrested on July 23 following restoration of money, jewelry and assets deeds from his alleged shut affiliate, prayed for his bail earlier than a unique CBI courtroom, which has reserved its order.

    The CBI is probing the recruitment rip-off on instructions of the Calcutta Top Court docket, and the Enforcement Directorate is having a look into the cash path related to the case.

    As Chatterjee were given off a car for his courtroom listening to, he used to be requested by means of newshounds to touch upon Chief of Opposition in Bengal Suvendu Adhikari’s statement that the times of the TMC are numbered and “main tendencies involving its leaders are at the playing cards in December”.

    The suspended chief used to be fast to respond that “none can do any hurt to the TMC; none can injury TMC’s potentialities”.

    The ruling birthday party in Bengal had got rid of Chatterjee from the state cupboard and all birthday party posts, but even so postponing him, in a while after he used to be arrested in July.

    Distancing the birthday party from Chatterjee, TMC state spokesperson Kunal Ghosh, when requested about his remark, mentioned the TMC does now not want Chatterjee’s certificates and has no relation with him.

    Ghosh, alternatively, asserted there’s no danger to the TMC, and BJP leaders are making absurd claims.

    But even so Adhikari, BJP state president Sukanta Majumdar claimed on events that “the downfall of Mamata Banerjee authorities will start from this month (December).”

    The TMC spokesperson, chatting with newshounds, mentioned, “Leaders like Suvendu Adhikari and Sukanta Majumdar haven’t any relevance, and they’re making such claims simply to stay in them information.

    Other folks of Bengal are with the TMC and we all know that,” he mentioned.

    BJP spokesperson Samik Bhattacharya claimed that Chatterjee, former Faculty Provider Fee adviser SP Sinha and others arrested in reference to the case had simply “adopted directions of the highest management”.

    “Partha had at all times adhered to the programmes of the birthday party.

    Therefore it isn’t sudden that he’s nonetheless talking in the similar voice as TMC,” Bhattacharya instructed PTI.

    Chatterjee held the schooling portfolio between 2014 and 2021 when the irregularities in recruitment of training and non-teaching body of workers in state government-sponsored and -aided faculties had allegedly taken position.

    He held a number of portfolios, together with Business and Trade, throughout the time of his arrest.

  • Faculty activity rip-off: Court docket extends judicial custody of Partha Chatterjee, his ‘aide’ until Oct 31

    Via PTI

    KOLKATA: A distinct PMLA courtroom right here on Wednesday rejected the bail prayer of arrested former Bengal minister Partha Chatterjee and prolonged his judicial custody until October 31 on a prayer through the Enforcement Directorate (ED), which is probing the alleged cash path within the Faculty Provider Fee (SSC) recruitment rip-off.

    The particular courtroom additionally prolonged the judicial remand of Chatterjee’s alleged shut aide, Arpita Mukherjee, until October 31.

    The ED, which had claimed in a fee sheet submitted earlier than the courtroom on September 19 that roughly Rs 100 crore used to be recovered within the type of money and belongings of Mukherjee, submitted that the volume may move as much as Rs 150 crore with contemporary revelations within the progressing investigation.

    The pass judgement on of the particular PMLA courtroom rejected the bail prayer of Chatterjee bearing in mind the “gravity and seriousness” of the offence alleged and ordered that the judicial custody of the previous minister be prolonged until October 31.

    The courtroom additionally allowed the prayers of the ED to interrogate the 2 accused in judicial custody.

    The ED alleged that Chatterjee and Mukherjee have been interested by cash laundering through indulging in legal conspiracy for illegally giving instructing publish jobs on suggestions through the Faculty Provider Fee (SSC) in state-sponsored and —aided faculty, and generated massive proceeds of crime.

    ED recommend Phiroze Edulji submitted that investigation into different high-value transactions is needed to be executed to unearth the cash path and determine the proceeds of crime.

    Edulji claimed that the volume may move as much as round Rs 150 crore.

    Praying for Chatterjee’s bail, his attorneys claimed that no cash used to be recovered from his space and that he does now not have any shut reference to Arpita Mukherjee, from whose apartments Rs 49.80 crore in money used to be seized through the ED.

    It used to be additional claimed that no tangible proof used to be recovered from Chatterjee to confirm the costs leveled towards him.

    Chatterjee and Mukherjee have been hung on July 23 through the ED in reference to its probe into the cash path concerned within the faculty recruitment rip-off.

    Following the arrest, the duo used to be within the custody of the company of 14 days. They have been then remanded in judicial custody on orders of the courtroom.

    The ED has mentioned that it has seized Rs 49.80 crore in money, excluding jewelry and gold bars from apartments owned through Mukherjee, as additionally paperwork of homes.

    It has additionally been mentioned through the company that Mukherjee’s shut affiliation with members of the family of Chatterjee has been present in an organization registered at an cope with owned through the previous at Belghoria, at the northern outskirts of Kolkata, from the place Rs 27.90 crore in money used to be seized.

    The ED had additionally recovered Rs 21.90 crore in money from a flat in south Kolkata the place Mukherjee resided.

    Chatterjee used to be relieved of his ministerial tasks through the Mamata Banerjee govt in a while after his arrest, whilst the TMC, too, got rid of him from the posts he held within the celebration, together with that of the secretary-general. He used to be the schooling minister when the rip-off used to be allegedly pulled off.

    KOLKATA: A distinct PMLA courtroom right here on Wednesday rejected the bail prayer of arrested former Bengal minister Partha Chatterjee and prolonged his judicial custody until October 31 on a prayer through the Enforcement Directorate (ED), which is probing the alleged cash path within the Faculty Provider Fee (SSC) recruitment rip-off.

    The particular courtroom additionally prolonged the judicial remand of Chatterjee’s alleged shut aide, Arpita Mukherjee, until October 31.

    The ED, which had claimed in a fee sheet submitted earlier than the courtroom on September 19 that roughly Rs 100 crore used to be recovered within the type of money and belongings of Mukherjee, submitted that the volume may move as much as Rs 150 crore with contemporary revelations within the progressing investigation.

    The pass judgement on of the particular PMLA courtroom rejected the bail prayer of Chatterjee bearing in mind the “gravity and seriousness” of the offence alleged and ordered that the judicial custody of the previous minister be prolonged until October 31.

    The courtroom additionally allowed the prayers of the ED to interrogate the 2 accused in judicial custody.

    The ED alleged that Chatterjee and Mukherjee have been interested by cash laundering through indulging in legal conspiracy for illegally giving instructing publish jobs on suggestions through the Faculty Provider Fee (SSC) in state-sponsored and —aided faculty, and generated massive proceeds of crime.

    ED recommend Phiroze Edulji submitted that investigation into different high-value transactions is needed to be executed to unearth the cash path and determine the proceeds of crime.

    Edulji claimed that the volume may move as much as round Rs 150 crore.

    Praying for Chatterjee’s bail, his attorneys claimed that no cash used to be recovered from his space and that he does now not have any shut reference to Arpita Mukherjee, from whose apartments Rs 49.80 crore in money used to be seized through the ED.

    It used to be additional claimed that no tangible proof used to be recovered from Chatterjee to confirm the costs leveled towards him.

    Chatterjee and Mukherjee have been hung on July 23 through the ED in reference to its probe into the cash path concerned within the faculty recruitment rip-off.

    Following the arrest, the duo used to be within the custody of the company of 14 days. They have been then remanded in judicial custody on orders of the courtroom.

    The ED has mentioned that it has seized Rs 49.80 crore in money, excluding jewelry and gold bars from apartments owned through Mukherjee, as additionally paperwork of homes.

    It has additionally been mentioned through the company that Mukherjee’s shut affiliation with members of the family of Chatterjee has been present in an organization registered at an cope with owned through the previous at Belghoria, at the northern outskirts of Kolkata, from the place Rs 27.90 crore in money used to be seized.

    The ED had additionally recovered Rs 21.90 crore in money from a flat in south Kolkata the place Mukherjee resided.

    Chatterjee used to be relieved of his ministerial tasks through the Mamata Banerjee govt in a while after his arrest, whilst the TMC, too, got rid of him from the posts he held within the celebration, together with that of the secretary-general. He used to be the schooling minister when the rip-off used to be allegedly pulled off.

  • As Trinamool continues to stand ED, CBI warmth; ‘new get together in six months’ publish in Kolkata

    By way of PTI

    KOLKATA: A staff of the Enforcement Directorate on Wednesday visited the Presidency Correctional House within the southern a part of town to quiz former Bengal minister Partha Chatterjee in reference to its probe into a college jobs rip-off, an professional stated.

    Within the recent spherical of wondering, Chatterjee shall be grilled at the foundation of the interrogation of Arpita Mukherjee, his shut affiliate who used to be additionally arrested via the ED as a part of the investigation, the professional stated.

    “We had quizzed Arpita the day past and he or she has given us a number of leads at the foundation of which we can be wondering Partha Chatterjee as of late,” he instructed PTI.

    Chatterjee, the now-suspended Trinamool Congress chief, and Mukherjee had been arrested via the ED final month in reference to its investigation into irregularities within the recruitment of lecturers via the Faculty Carrier Fee.

    The central company has additionally seized crores of rupees from Mukherjee’s properties in several portions of Kolkata.

    In the meantime, Sleuths of the Central Bureau of Investigation are prone to query the daughter of arrested Trinamool Congress chief Anubrata Mondal on Wednesday in reference to their probe into the alleged livestock smuggling rip-off, a senior professional stated.

    The CBI sleuths are anticipated to seek advice from Mondal’s place of dwelling in Bolpur in West Bengal’s Birbhum district to quiz his daughter.

    They are going to query the accountant of the TMC’s district president as part of their probe into the multi-crore rip-off, the CBI professional stated on Tuesday.

    “Our officials will seek advice from Mondal’s Bolpur place of dwelling the next day to come to query his daughter. We might also interrogate his accountant,” he instructed PTI.

    The central company suspected that a number of financial institution accounts belonging to Mondal’s daughter had been used for monetary transactions within the rip-off, he stated.

    “We’ve got discovered a number of joint financial institution accounts of Mondal and his daughter. The 2 are joint holders of many different belongings as neatly. A number of accounts belonging to his daughter had been used for transactions within the livestock smuggling rip-off.”

    “A flat in Chinar Park space, at the outskirts of town, used to be registered in his daughter’s identify. We’ve got discovered two extra apartments in her identify. There are a number of rice generators too,” the officer stated.

    All the way through the day, the CBI sleuths puzzled Mondal in reference to the rip-off, he stated, claiming that the TMC chief “didn’t cooperate” with them.

    The central company has been accusing Mondal of “now not cooperating” with its sleuths since his arrest final week.

    All the way through the day, a separate team of CBI officials visited the correctional house in Asansol and grilled Mondal’s bodyguard Saigal Hossain, who has additionally been in custody for his alleged involvement within the rip-off, the central company’s professional added.

    Posters claiming {that a} “new and reformed TMC will come into being in six months”, bearing images of get together common secretary Abhishek Banerjee however now not of West Bengal Leader Minister Mamata Banerjee, were publish in quite a lot of portions of Kolkata.

    The posters had been publish most commonly in south Kolkata’s Hazra and Kalighat spaces, each close to the TMC supremo’s place of dwelling in Bhowanipore.

    Then again, not one of the posters bore Mamata Banerjee’s images, which has seldom been the case in TMC posters because the get together’s inception in 1998.

    Even if lots of the get together leaders remained tight-lipped over the improvement, TMC state secretary common Kunal Ghosh, who is thought of as as regards to Abhishek Banerjee, stated there used to be not anything incorrect with the posters.

    “Over and over again, Abhishek Banerjee has stated that we wish to be informed and fortify ourselves. We wish to fulfil the aspirations of the loads. So possibly some over-enthusiastic get together employees publish posters along with his quotes issued previously,” Ghosh stated.

    In keeping with TMC insiders, the arrest of senior leaders Partha Chatterjee and Anubrata Mondal can have far-reaching penalties inside the get together as it is going to additional cement the younger brigade’s grip at the organisation.

    Reacting to the improvement, state Congress leader Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury stated those posters had been the fallout of an inner-party combat with the TMC.

    “For final three hundred and sixty five days, an inner-party combat inside the TMC has been out within the open.

    However whether or not it is for excellent or dangerous, there’s no hurt in accepting the fact that Mamata Banerjee remains to be and can stay the motive force in the back of the TMC,” he stated.

    In the meantime, state BJP leader Sukanta Majumdar on Tuesday courted controversy via asking get together employees to hold sticks with flags and withstand if makes an attempt are made to forestall them all through the get together’s September 7 protest march to the state secretariat.

    His name drew sharp complaint from the ruling TMC, which accused the saffron get together of “looking to vitiate the state’s non violent setting”.

    Addressing a get together rally at Madhyamgram in North 24 Parganas district, he stated there could be stiff resistance if makes an attempt are made to forestall the march.

    “On September 7, we can march to Nabanna (state secretariat) to protest the corrupt TMC regime within the state. But when we’re stopped, there could be stiff resistance. I request all of you to hold sticks at the side of flags,” he stated.

    The protest march is a part of the BJP’s upping the ante in opposition to TMC following the arrest of 2 state ministers.

    Later, whilst talking with journalists, Majumdar asserted that each and every particular person has the correct to self-defence.

    “As in step with our Charter, each and every particular person has the correct to self-defence. If any individual tries to assault, you’ll be able to at all times take steps to offer protection to your self,” he stated.

    Reacting to his feedback, TMC state common secretary Kunal Ghosh stated, “The BJP is making an attempt to disturb the non violent setting of the state. The saffron get together and its leaders in West Bengal don’t have any credibility,” he stated.

    KOLKATA: A staff of the Enforcement Directorate on Wednesday visited the Presidency Correctional House within the southern a part of town to quiz former Bengal minister Partha Chatterjee in reference to its probe into a college jobs rip-off, an professional stated.

    Within the recent spherical of wondering, Chatterjee shall be grilled at the foundation of the interrogation of Arpita Mukherjee, his shut affiliate who used to be additionally arrested via the ED as a part of the investigation, the professional stated.

    “We had quizzed Arpita the day past and he or she has given us a number of leads at the foundation of which we can be wondering Partha Chatterjee as of late,” he instructed PTI.

    Chatterjee, the now-suspended Trinamool Congress chief, and Mukherjee had been arrested via the ED final month in reference to its investigation into irregularities within the recruitment of lecturers via the Faculty Carrier Fee.

    The central company has additionally seized crores of rupees from Mukherjee’s properties in several portions of Kolkata.

    In the meantime, Sleuths of the Central Bureau of Investigation are prone to query the daughter of arrested Trinamool Congress chief Anubrata Mondal on Wednesday in reference to their probe into the alleged livestock smuggling rip-off, a senior professional stated.

    The CBI sleuths are anticipated to seek advice from Mondal’s place of dwelling in Bolpur in West Bengal’s Birbhum district to quiz his daughter.

    They are going to query the accountant of the TMC’s district president as part of their probe into the multi-crore rip-off, the CBI professional stated on Tuesday.

    “Our officials will seek advice from Mondal’s Bolpur place of dwelling the next day to come to query his daughter. We might also interrogate his accountant,” he instructed PTI.

    The central company suspected that a number of financial institution accounts belonging to Mondal’s daughter had been used for monetary transactions within the rip-off, he stated.

    “We’ve got discovered a number of joint financial institution accounts of Mondal and his daughter. The 2 are joint holders of many different belongings as neatly. A number of accounts belonging to his daughter had been used for transactions within the livestock smuggling rip-off.”

    “A flat in Chinar Park space, at the outskirts of town, used to be registered in his daughter’s identify. We’ve got discovered two extra apartments in her identify. There are a number of rice generators too,” the officer stated.

    All the way through the day, the CBI sleuths puzzled Mondal in reference to the rip-off, he stated, claiming that the TMC chief “didn’t cooperate” with them.

    The central company has been accusing Mondal of “now not cooperating” with its sleuths since his arrest final week.

    All the way through the day, a separate team of CBI officials visited the correctional house in Asansol and grilled Mondal’s bodyguard Saigal Hossain, who has additionally been in custody for his alleged involvement within the rip-off, the central company’s professional added.

    Posters claiming {that a} “new and reformed TMC will come into being in six months”, bearing images of get together common secretary Abhishek Banerjee however now not of West Bengal Leader Minister Mamata Banerjee, were publish in quite a lot of portions of Kolkata.

    The posters had been publish most commonly in south Kolkata’s Hazra and Kalighat spaces, each close to the TMC supremo’s place of dwelling in Bhowanipore.

    Then again, not one of the posters bore Mamata Banerjee’s images, which has seldom been the case in TMC posters because the get together’s inception in 1998.

    Even if lots of the get together leaders remained tight-lipped over the improvement, TMC state secretary common Kunal Ghosh, who is thought of as as regards to Abhishek Banerjee, stated there used to be not anything incorrect with the posters.

    “Over and over again, Abhishek Banerjee has stated that we wish to be informed and fortify ourselves. We wish to fulfil the aspirations of the loads. So possibly some over-enthusiastic get together employees publish posters along with his quotes issued previously,” Ghosh stated.

    In keeping with TMC insiders, the arrest of senior leaders Partha Chatterjee and Anubrata Mondal can have far-reaching penalties inside the get together as it is going to additional cement the younger brigade’s grip at the organisation.

    Reacting to the improvement, state Congress leader Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury stated those posters had been the fallout of an inner-party combat with the TMC.

    “For final three hundred and sixty five days, an inner-party combat inside the TMC has been out within the open.

    However whether or not it is for excellent or dangerous, there’s no hurt in accepting the fact that Mamata Banerjee remains to be and can stay the motive force in the back of the TMC,” he stated.

    In the meantime, state BJP leader Sukanta Majumdar on Tuesday courted controversy via asking get together employees to hold sticks with flags and withstand if makes an attempt are made to forestall them all through the get together’s September 7 protest march to the state secretariat.

    His name drew sharp complaint from the ruling TMC, which accused the saffron get together of “looking to vitiate the state’s non violent setting”.

    Addressing a get together rally at Madhyamgram in North 24 Parganas district, he stated there could be stiff resistance if makes an attempt are made to forestall the march.

    “On September 7, we can march to Nabanna (state secretariat) to protest the corrupt TMC regime within the state. But when we’re stopped, there could be stiff resistance. I request all of you to hold sticks at the side of flags,” he stated.

    The protest march is a part of the BJP’s upping the ante in opposition to TMC following the arrest of 2 state ministers.

    Later, whilst talking with journalists, Majumdar asserted that each and every particular person has the correct to self-defence.

    “As in step with our Charter, each and every particular person has the correct to self-defence. If any individual tries to assault, you’ll be able to at all times take steps to offer protection to your self,” he stated.

    Reacting to his feedback, TMC state common secretary Kunal Ghosh stated, “The BJP is making an attempt to disturb the non violent setting of the state. The saffron get together and its leaders in West Bengal don’t have any credibility,” he stated.

  • WB faculty jobs rip-off: Partha, Arpita despatched to judicial custody until August 18

    By means of PTI

    KOLKATA: Former schooling minister of West Bengal Partha Chatterjee and his aide Arpita Mukherjee had been despatched to fourteen days in judicial custody through a different courtroom in Kolkata on Friday within the SSC rip-off case.

    Particular PMLA courtroom pass judgement on Jibon Kumar Sadhu granted 14 days’ judicial remand of Chatterjee and Mukherjee on a prayer through the Enforcement Directorate (ED).

    The courtroom rejected a bail prayer of the previous minister and directed that Chatterjee and Mukherjee be produced once more on August 18 when the topic will likely be heard once more.

    Chatterjee and Mukherjee were in ED’s remand since their arrest on July 23 in reference to its probe into the cash path in unlawful recruitments finished through the College Carrier Fee (SSC) for West Bengal government-sponsored and aided faculties.

    The ED has claimed that it recovered Rs 49.80 crore in money, jewelry and gold bars from residences owned through Mukherjee, but even so paperwork of houses and an organization in joint maintaining.

    The duo is going through fees underneath the Prevention of Cash Laundering Act (PMLA).

    ALSO READ | ‘Partha Chatterjee used to take Arpita Mukherjee for joyrides in high-end vehicles, have events’: Investigators

    KOLKATA: Former schooling minister of West Bengal Partha Chatterjee and his aide Arpita Mukherjee had been despatched to fourteen days in judicial custody through a different courtroom in Kolkata on Friday within the SSC rip-off case.

    Particular PMLA courtroom pass judgement on Jibon Kumar Sadhu granted 14 days’ judicial remand of Chatterjee and Mukherjee on a prayer through the Enforcement Directorate (ED).

    The courtroom rejected a bail prayer of the previous minister and directed that Chatterjee and Mukherjee be produced once more on August 18 when the topic will likely be heard once more.

    Chatterjee and Mukherjee were in ED’s remand since their arrest on July 23 in reference to its probe into the cash path in unlawful recruitments finished through the College Carrier Fee (SSC) for West Bengal government-sponsored and aided faculties.

    The ED has claimed that it recovered Rs 49.80 crore in money, jewelry and gold bars from residences owned through Mukherjee, but even so paperwork of houses and an organization in joint maintaining.

    The duo is going through fees underneath the Prevention of Cash Laundering Act (PMLA).

    ALSO READ | ‘Partha Chatterjee used to take Arpita Mukherjee for joyrides in high-end vehicles, have events’: Investigators

  • SSC rip-off: Cash was once saved with out my wisdom, says Arpita as ED raids 5 extra puts

    Through Specific Information Provider

    KOLKATA: Talking out first time in public at the factor of restoration of money Rs 49.8 crore from her two Residences, Arpita Mukherjee, a detailed aide of suspended Trinamool Congress minister Partha Chatterjee, claimed on Tuesday that the cash was once no longer her and it was once saved in her absence and with out her wisdom.

    Whilst being taken for clinical exam two days in the past, Chatterjee, who was once arrested in reference to alleged recruitment rip-off in colleges, stated he doesn’t have any cash.

    Requested from the place the massive quantity of money got here to her flats, Arpita, whilst being taken to ESI clinic, Joka, for clinical exam with Chatterjee, stated, “The cash was once no longer mine. It was once saved in my puts when I used to be no longer provide there. The cash was once introduced there with out my wisdom.”

    Chatterjee, then again, didn’t utter a phrase on Tuesday. The ED carried out searches at 5 puts, which come with 3 flats in south Kolkata and two nail-art shops owned through Arpita.

    ALSO READ | SSC rip-off: Partha Chatterjee sticks to ‘conspiracy’ principle; aide Arpita washes off her palms

    “The raids have been carried out at Baranagar, Patuli, Panditiya Highway and Lake Gardens. We got here to learn about those puts whilst inspecting the paperwork recovered from the apartments of Chatterjee and Arpita,” stated an ED respectable.

    The central company didn’t interrogate Chatterjee and Arpita right through their nine-day custody. “There have been discrepancies within the statements given through each the accused. Each claimed that they don’t personal the cash. Arpita stated she was once no longer provide when the foreign money notes have been being saved in her flats and she or he had no get entry to to the rooms the place it was once saved. Chatterjee claimed that he has no concept in regards to the cash that we seized,” stated an respectable of the company.    

    Chatterjee and Arpita will likely be produced in a distinct prevention of Cash Laundering Act (PMLA) courtroom on Wednesday. “We will be able to point out in our submission within the courtroom in regards to the restoration of money from Arpita’s 2d condo after interrogating her. We will be able to search the suspects’ additional custody,” stated some other ED respectable.

    In the meantime, a homemaker, known herself as Subhra Ghorui, hurled her sandals on the car by which Chatterjee was once being taken out after clinical exam. The sneakers, then again, didn’t hit Chatterjee.

    “Had my sandals hit Chatterjee’s head, I might had been satisfied. He looted cash from deficient other folks. He merits what I did,” stated Subhra, a mom of a daughter who additionally went to the similar clinic for clinical check-up.

    KOLKATA: Talking out first time in public at the factor of restoration of money Rs 49.8 crore from her two Residences, Arpita Mukherjee, a detailed aide of suspended Trinamool Congress minister Partha Chatterjee, claimed on Tuesday that the cash was once no longer her and it was once saved in her absence and with out her wisdom.

    Whilst being taken for clinical exam two days in the past, Chatterjee, who was once arrested in reference to alleged recruitment rip-off in colleges, stated he doesn’t have any cash.

    Requested from the place the massive quantity of money got here to her flats, Arpita, whilst being taken to ESI clinic, Joka, for clinical exam with Chatterjee, stated, “The cash was once no longer mine. It was once saved in my puts when I used to be no longer provide there. The cash was once introduced there with out my wisdom.”

    Chatterjee, then again, didn’t utter a phrase on Tuesday. The ED carried out searches at 5 puts, which come with 3 flats in south Kolkata and two nail-art shops owned through Arpita.

    ALSO READ | SSC rip-off: Partha Chatterjee sticks to ‘conspiracy’ principle; aide Arpita washes off her palms

    “The raids have been carried out at Baranagar, Patuli, Panditiya Highway and Lake Gardens. We got here to learn about those puts whilst inspecting the paperwork recovered from the apartments of Chatterjee and Arpita,” stated an ED respectable.

    The central company didn’t interrogate Chatterjee and Arpita right through their nine-day custody. “There have been discrepancies within the statements given through each the accused. Each claimed that they don’t personal the cash. Arpita stated she was once no longer provide when the foreign money notes have been being saved in her flats and she or he had no get entry to to the rooms the place it was once saved. Chatterjee claimed that he has no concept in regards to the cash that we seized,” stated an respectable of the company.    

    Chatterjee and Arpita will likely be produced in a distinct prevention of Cash Laundering Act (PMLA) courtroom on Wednesday. “We will be able to point out in our submission within the courtroom in regards to the restoration of money from Arpita’s 2d condo after interrogating her. We will be able to search the suspects’ additional custody,” stated some other ED respectable.

    In the meantime, a homemaker, known herself as Subhra Ghorui, hurled her sandals on the car by which Chatterjee was once being taken out after clinical exam. The sneakers, then again, didn’t hit Chatterjee.

    “Had my sandals hit Chatterjee’s head, I might had been satisfied. He looted cash from deficient other folks. He merits what I did,” stated Subhra, a mom of a daughter who additionally went to the similar clinic for clinical check-up.

  • Girl hurls sneakers at suspended TMC chief Partha Chatterjee close to sanatorium

    Via PTI

    KOLKATA: A girl, a resident of West Bengal’s Amtala space, on Tuesday took off her pair of trainers and made an try to throw her sneakers at suspended Trinamool Congress chief Partha Chatterjee when the latter was once being escorted out of a sanatorium right here through Enforcement Directorate (ED) officers.

    It, on the other hand, neglected its mark.

    The incident came about when the arrested former TMC chief was once taken through the ED officers to the ESI Health facility in Joka for a scientific check-up.

    The center-aged lady, Shubra Ghorui, is claimed to have harboured anger in opposition to Chatterjee after the seizure of round Rs 50 crore in money, in conjunction with jewelry, through the Enforcement Directorate from two flats of Arpita Mukherjee, a detailed affiliate of the suspended TMC chief.

    “I had come right here to hit (Partha) Chatterjee with my sneakers. After ‘dishonest’ folks he’s travelling in AC vehicles. He should be dragged with a rope…I will be able to stroll again house barefoot. It’s not best my anger however that of lakhs and lakhs of folks of West Bengal,” Ghorui instructed journalists.

    The veteran chief, who has been relieved of his ministerial tasks, was once then whisked away in a car from the sanatorium premises through ED safety body of workers.

    “I might were more than happy if the sneakers had hit him. I will be able to now not take the sneakers again,” the lady mentioned.

    Ghorui had long past to the power for a scientific exam of her relative.

    Each Chatterjee and Mukherjee had been arrested through the ED on July 23 in reference to its probe into the multi-crore instructor recruitment rip-off.

    The arrested chief was once taken through the ED officers to the ESI Health facility in Joka for a scientific check-up and police had submit tight safety preparations within the premises.

    Prior to now, many politicians within the nation were centered through offended folks with sneakers and slippers.

    An Aam Aadmi Celebration Sena member had hurled a shoe at Delhi Leader Minister Arvind Kejriwal throughout a press convention within the nationwide capital in 2016.

    Former finance minister and Congress chief P Chidambaram had narrowly escaped being hit through a Sikh journalist’s shoe in April 2009.

    KOLKATA: A girl, a resident of West Bengal’s Amtala space, on Tuesday took off her pair of trainers and made an try to throw her sneakers at suspended Trinamool Congress chief Partha Chatterjee when the latter was once being escorted out of a sanatorium right here through Enforcement Directorate (ED) officers.

    It, on the other hand, neglected its mark.

    The incident came about when the arrested former TMC chief was once taken through the ED officers to the ESI Health facility in Joka for a scientific check-up.

    The center-aged lady, Shubra Ghorui, is claimed to have harboured anger in opposition to Chatterjee after the seizure of round Rs 50 crore in money, in conjunction with jewelry, through the Enforcement Directorate from two flats of Arpita Mukherjee, a detailed affiliate of the suspended TMC chief.

    “I had come right here to hit (Partha) Chatterjee with my sneakers. After ‘dishonest’ folks he’s travelling in AC vehicles. He should be dragged with a rope…I will be able to stroll again house barefoot. It’s not best my anger however that of lakhs and lakhs of folks of West Bengal,” Ghorui instructed journalists.

    The veteran chief, who has been relieved of his ministerial tasks, was once then whisked away in a car from the sanatorium premises through ED safety body of workers.

    “I might were more than happy if the sneakers had hit him. I will be able to now not take the sneakers again,” the lady mentioned.

    Ghorui had long past to the power for a scientific exam of her relative.

    Each Chatterjee and Mukherjee had been arrested through the ED on July 23 in reference to its probe into the multi-crore instructor recruitment rip-off.

    The arrested chief was once taken through the ED officers to the ESI Health facility in Joka for a scientific check-up and police had submit tight safety preparations within the premises.

    Prior to now, many politicians within the nation were centered through offended folks with sneakers and slippers.

    An Aam Aadmi Celebration Sena member had hurled a shoe at Delhi Leader Minister Arvind Kejriwal throughout a press convention within the nationwide capital in 2016.

    Former finance minister and Congress chief P Chidambaram had narrowly escaped being hit through a Sikh journalist’s shoe in April 2009.

  • ‘Cash recovered by way of ED does now not belong to me’: Partha Chatterjee as soon as once more claims ‘conspiracy’ in opposition to him

    By means of PTI

    KOLKATA: Arrested Bengal minister Partha Chatterjee, who’s on the centre of a multi-crore college jobs rip-off, on Sunday claimed that the cash recovered all the way through Enforcement Directorate raids does now not belong to him, and time will inform who’re “conspiring” in opposition to him.

    As he deboarded a car after being taken to ESI Health facility at Joka for a clinical check-up, and was once approached by way of newshounds with questions in regards to the rip-off, Chatterjee stated, “The cash (recovered) isn’t mine.”

    Requested additional if any one was once conspiring in opposition to him, he stated: “You are going to get to grasp when the time comes.”

    Chatterjee had on Friday asserted that he was once a sufferer of a conspiracy and expressed disappointment over the Trinamool Congress’ determination to droop him.

    “This determination (to droop me) may affect an unbiased probe,” he had stated.

    Concerning the transfer to take away him from the ministry, Chatterjee, as soon as thought to be a detailed confidante of Leader Minister Mamata Banerjee, stated, “Her (Banerjee’s) determination is correct.”

    Chatterjee, 69, was once relieved of his tasks as minister-in-charge of more than a few departments and suspended from the TMC on Thursday.

    He was once additionally got rid of from all birthday celebration posts.

    One among his shut aides, Arpita Mukherjee, has additionally been arrested by way of the ED after crores of rupees in money have been seized from her apartments in portions of town.

    The TMC management has taken exception to his feedback, contending that Chatterjee was once himself answerable for his destiny.

    “Why was once he silent for the previous couple of days after his arrest? He has each and every proper to way the court docket and end up his innocence. The birthday celebration has not anything to do with this rip-off,” TMC state basic secretary Kunal Ghosh had stated on Thursday.

    The CBI, as directed by way of Calcutta Top Courtroom, is probing the alleged irregularities within the recruitment of Crew-C and -D personnel, in addition to lecturers in government-sponsored and -aided colleges at the suggestions of the West Bengal College Provider Fee.

    The ED is taking a look into the cash path concerned within the rip-off.

    KOLKATA: Arrested Bengal minister Partha Chatterjee, who’s on the centre of a multi-crore college jobs rip-off, on Sunday claimed that the cash recovered all the way through Enforcement Directorate raids does now not belong to him, and time will inform who’re “conspiring” in opposition to him.

    As he deboarded a car after being taken to ESI Health facility at Joka for a clinical check-up, and was once approached by way of newshounds with questions in regards to the rip-off, Chatterjee stated, “The cash (recovered) isn’t mine.”

    Requested additional if any one was once conspiring in opposition to him, he stated: “You are going to get to grasp when the time comes.”

    Chatterjee had on Friday asserted that he was once a sufferer of a conspiracy and expressed disappointment over the Trinamool Congress’ determination to droop him.

    “This determination (to droop me) may affect an unbiased probe,” he had stated.

    Concerning the transfer to take away him from the ministry, Chatterjee, as soon as thought to be a detailed confidante of Leader Minister Mamata Banerjee, stated, “Her (Banerjee’s) determination is correct.”

    Chatterjee, 69, was once relieved of his tasks as minister-in-charge of more than a few departments and suspended from the TMC on Thursday.

    He was once additionally got rid of from all birthday celebration posts.

    One among his shut aides, Arpita Mukherjee, has additionally been arrested by way of the ED after crores of rupees in money have been seized from her apartments in portions of town.

    The TMC management has taken exception to his feedback, contending that Chatterjee was once himself answerable for his destiny.

    “Why was once he silent for the previous couple of days after his arrest? He has each and every proper to way the court docket and end up his innocence. The birthday celebration has not anything to do with this rip-off,” TMC state basic secretary Kunal Ghosh had stated on Thursday.

    The CBI, as directed by way of Calcutta Top Courtroom, is probing the alleged irregularities within the recruitment of Crew-C and -D personnel, in addition to lecturers in government-sponsored and -aided colleges at the suggestions of the West Bengal College Provider Fee.

    The ED is taking a look into the cash path concerned within the rip-off.

  • SSC rip-off: ED starts strategy of freezing financial institution accounts of arrested Bengal Minister’s affiliate

    By way of PTI

    KOLKATA: The Enforcement Directorate (ED) has begun the method of freezing no less than 3 financial institution accounts of suspended TMC chief Partha Chatterjee’s affiliate Arpita Mukherjee, the place they’ve discovered no less than Rs 2 crore, a senior legitimate of the company stated on Saturday.

    Financial institution accounts belonging to a number of “shell corporations” of Mukherjee also are underneath ED scanner, he stated.

    “The method of freezing Mukherjee’s 3 financial institution accounts has began. A complete of round Rs 2 crore has been present in those accounts. We suspect those accounts have been used to hold out a number of transactions and extra probe is underway,” the legitimate stated.

    He stated a call on freezing the financial institution accounts of the “shell corporations” is but to be taken, whilst refusing to reveal the quantity in the ones accounts.

    “We’ve sought the main points of those financial institution accounts from government involved. After going during the accounts, we can make a decision our subsequent plan of action,” he stated.

    The ED sleuth stated the company will proceed grilling Mukherjee to understand whether or not she has to any extent further financial institution accounts.

    Chatterjee’s financial institution accounts also are being checked, resources stated.

    Interrogation of each Mukherjee and Chatterjee is underway since morning, they stated.

    Each Chatterjee, who has been stripped of his ministerial and birthday celebration tasks, and Mukherjee, from whose two apartments ED has seized Rs 50 crore in money but even so jewelry and foreign exchange, might be within the custody of the central company until August 3.

    The duo used to be arrested on July 23 for his or her alleged involvement within the faculty jobs rip-off, the place authentic applicants have been allegedly sidestepped with names that didn’t seem at the benefit listing.

    ED is probing the cash laundering facet of the rip-off.

    When taken to ESI Health center in Joka house in south Kolkata on Friday, Chatterjee alleged he used to be a “sufferer of conspiracy”, however TMC has asserted that he used to be “only liable for his destiny”.

    KOLKATA: The Enforcement Directorate (ED) has begun the method of freezing no less than 3 financial institution accounts of suspended TMC chief Partha Chatterjee’s affiliate Arpita Mukherjee, the place they’ve discovered no less than Rs 2 crore, a senior legitimate of the company stated on Saturday.

    Financial institution accounts belonging to a number of “shell corporations” of Mukherjee also are underneath ED scanner, he stated.

    “The method of freezing Mukherjee’s 3 financial institution accounts has began. A complete of round Rs 2 crore has been present in those accounts. We suspect those accounts have been used to hold out a number of transactions and extra probe is underway,” the legitimate stated.

    He stated a call on freezing the financial institution accounts of the “shell corporations” is but to be taken, whilst refusing to reveal the quantity in the ones accounts.

    “We’ve sought the main points of those financial institution accounts from government involved. After going during the accounts, we can make a decision our subsequent plan of action,” he stated.

    The ED sleuth stated the company will proceed grilling Mukherjee to understand whether or not she has to any extent further financial institution accounts.

    Chatterjee’s financial institution accounts also are being checked, resources stated.

    Interrogation of each Mukherjee and Chatterjee is underway since morning, they stated.

    Each Chatterjee, who has been stripped of his ministerial and birthday celebration tasks, and Mukherjee, from whose two apartments ED has seized Rs 50 crore in money but even so jewelry and foreign exchange, might be within the custody of the central company until August 3.

    The duo used to be arrested on July 23 for his or her alleged involvement within the faculty jobs rip-off, the place authentic applicants have been allegedly sidestepped with names that didn’t seem at the benefit listing.

    ED is probing the cash laundering facet of the rip-off.

    When taken to ESI Health center in Joka house in south Kolkata on Friday, Chatterjee alleged he used to be a “sufferer of conspiracy”, however TMC has asserted that he used to be “only liable for his destiny”.

  • SSC rip-off: BJP takes out rally in Kolkata to protest towards college jobs irregularities

    By way of PTI

    KOLKATA: The BJP’s West Bengal unit on Thursday took out a rally right here to protest towards alleged irregularities within the recruitment of lecturers and non-teaching body of workers in government-sponsored and-aided faculties.

    Led through BJP’s state president Sukanta Majumdar and different senior celebration leaders, the protest march – Kolkata Chalo – started at School Side road and culminated at Rani Rashmoni street in central Kolkata.

    “The corruption in College Provider Fee is solely the top of the iceberg. All the TMC and its authorities are knee-deep in corruption. Partha Chatterjee and different corrupt leaders will have to be put in the back of bars,” Majumdar stated.

    The state authorities on Thursday got rid of Chatterjee, who used to be on July 23 arrested through the Enforcement Directorate in reference to the alleged college jobs rip-off, from the ministry with instant impact.

    Sporting posters and placards, the BJP activists shouted slogans towards the Mamata Banerjee authorities and its schooling division.

    They demanded that the culprits in the back of the alleged rip-off will have to be put in the back of bars.

    Chatterjee held the portfolios of trade and trade, parliamentary affairs, knowledge era and electronics, public enterprises and business reconstruction within the state cupboard.

    He used to be the state schooling minister when the alleged rip-off came about.

    The Enforcement Directorate is probing into the cash path concerned within the irregularities in recruitment at faculties.

    Crores of rupees in money together with different pieces have been allegedly recovered from the place of dwelling of a lady, who is thought of as to be an in depth affiliate of Chatterjee.

    PTI may just now not independently examine the ideas.

    Some other central company CBI, as directed through the Calcutta Prime Court docket, could also be probing the alleged irregularities within the recruitment of Team-C and D body of workers in addition to lecturers in government-sponsored and-aided faculties on suggestions of the West Bengal College Provider Fee.

    KOLKATA: The BJP’s West Bengal unit on Thursday took out a rally right here to protest towards alleged irregularities within the recruitment of lecturers and non-teaching body of workers in government-sponsored and-aided faculties.

    Led through BJP’s state president Sukanta Majumdar and different senior celebration leaders, the protest march – Kolkata Chalo – started at School Side road and culminated at Rani Rashmoni street in central Kolkata.

    “The corruption in College Provider Fee is solely the top of the iceberg. All the TMC and its authorities are knee-deep in corruption. Partha Chatterjee and different corrupt leaders will have to be put in the back of bars,” Majumdar stated.

    The state authorities on Thursday got rid of Chatterjee, who used to be on July 23 arrested through the Enforcement Directorate in reference to the alleged college jobs rip-off, from the ministry with instant impact.

    Sporting posters and placards, the BJP activists shouted slogans towards the Mamata Banerjee authorities and its schooling division.

    They demanded that the culprits in the back of the alleged rip-off will have to be put in the back of bars.

    Chatterjee held the portfolios of trade and trade, parliamentary affairs, knowledge era and electronics, public enterprises and business reconstruction within the state cupboard.

    He used to be the state schooling minister when the alleged rip-off came about.

    The Enforcement Directorate is probing into the cash path concerned within the irregularities in recruitment at faculties.

    Crores of rupees in money together with different pieces have been allegedly recovered from the place of dwelling of a lady, who is thought of as to be an in depth affiliate of Chatterjee.

    PTI may just now not independently examine the ideas.

    Some other central company CBI, as directed through the Calcutta Prime Court docket, could also be probing the alleged irregularities within the recruitment of Team-C and D body of workers in addition to lecturers in government-sponsored and-aided faculties on suggestions of the West Bengal College Provider Fee.

  • SSC rip-off: Money round Rs 28 crore, jewelry discovered at rental related to arrested Bengal minister

    By way of On-line Table

    KOLKATA: The Enforcement Directorate (ED) has recovered Rs 27.9 crore in money, but even so an enormous quantity of gold jewelry from an rental related to Arpita Mukherjee, thought to be an in depth affiliate of arrested West Bengal Trade Minister Partha Chatterjee, officers mentioned on Thursday morning.

    The stacks of money have been recovered from the rental in Belgharia on Wednesday, and after in a single day counting, it amounted to Rs 27.90 crore, they mentioned.

    The investigators are nonetheless ascertaining the worth of the gold jewelry, believed to be in kgs, they added.

    The cash and gold have been discovered 5 days after the company seized greater than Rs 21 crore in money, but even so jewelry and foreign currencies from any other flat of Mukherjee in south Kolkata’s Tollygunge space, following which she was once arrested.

    In all, just about Rs 50 crore in money has been seized thus far, officers mentioned.

    ED officers on Wednesday carried out coordinated raids at more than a few houses at Rajdanga in south Kolkata and Belgharia within the northern fringes of the town.

    Right through wondering, Mukherjee knowledgeable the ED about the ones houses, officers mentioned.

    ED sleuths needed to damage open a door to get into the 2 apartments in Belgharia’s Rathtala locality because the keys to open them may now not be noticed, they mentioned.

    A number of “essential” paperwork have been additionally discovered within the apartments all through a seek, the reputable mentioned.

    Chatterjee, a formidable minister in Mamata Banerjee authorities and the secretary-general of Trinamool Congress, was once arrested on Saturday after the money was once discovered at Mukherjee’s Tollygunge flat.

    The CBI, as directed by way of the Calcutta Top Court docket, is probing the alleged irregularities dedicated within the recruitment of Crew-C and D body of workers in addition to academics in government-sponsored and aided colleges on suggestions of the West Bengal Faculty Provider Fee (SSC).

    The ED is monitoring the cash path within the rip-off.

    Chatterjee was once the training minister when the alleged irregularities happened.

    (With PTI Inputs)

    KOLKATA: The Enforcement Directorate (ED) has recovered Rs 27.9 crore in money, but even so an enormous quantity of gold jewelry from an rental related to Arpita Mukherjee, thought to be an in depth affiliate of arrested West Bengal Trade Minister Partha Chatterjee, officers mentioned on Thursday morning.

    The stacks of money have been recovered from the rental in Belgharia on Wednesday, and after in a single day counting, it amounted to Rs 27.90 crore, they mentioned.

    The investigators are nonetheless ascertaining the worth of the gold jewelry, believed to be in kgs, they added.

    The cash and gold have been discovered 5 days after the company seized greater than Rs 21 crore in money, but even so jewelry and foreign currencies from any other flat of Mukherjee in south Kolkata’s Tollygunge space, following which she was once arrested.

    In all, just about Rs 50 crore in money has been seized thus far, officers mentioned.

    ED officers on Wednesday carried out coordinated raids at more than a few houses at Rajdanga in south Kolkata and Belgharia within the northern fringes of the town.

    Right through wondering, Mukherjee knowledgeable the ED about the ones houses, officers mentioned.

    ED sleuths needed to damage open a door to get into the 2 apartments in Belgharia’s Rathtala locality because the keys to open them may now not be noticed, they mentioned.

    A number of “essential” paperwork have been additionally discovered within the apartments all through a seek, the reputable mentioned.

    Chatterjee, a formidable minister in Mamata Banerjee authorities and the secretary-general of Trinamool Congress, was once arrested on Saturday after the money was once discovered at Mukherjee’s Tollygunge flat.

    The CBI, as directed by way of the Calcutta Top Court docket, is probing the alleged irregularities dedicated within the recruitment of Crew-C and D body of workers in addition to academics in government-sponsored and aided colleges on suggestions of the West Bengal Faculty Provider Fee (SSC).

    The ED is monitoring the cash path within the rip-off.

    Chatterjee was once the training minister when the alleged irregularities happened.

    (With PTI Inputs)