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  • CBI questions TMC chief Abhishek for over 9 hours in ‘college jobs rip-off’ case

    Through PTI

    KOLKATA: CBI officials puzzled TMC chief Abhishek Banerjee, who seemed sooner than them Saturday as a part of the company’s probe into the varsity jobs rip-off, for greater than 9 hours sooner than letting the younger flesh presser out.

    Banerjee instructed newspersons conserving vigil outdoor the Nizam Palace administrative center of the CBI, that the wondering was once a waste of time for each him and the CBI officials, however that he “cooperated in all that was once requested.”

    “I used to be puzzled for 9 and-a-half hours by means of CBI. Wondering was once a waste of time for them (CBI officials) in addition to for me,” mentioned Banerjee after rising from Nizam Palace.

    He claimed the actual explanation why he was once referred to as in was once as a result of, he had refused to be a “puppy canine of Delhi’s bosses” and for this reason he has been “focused.”

    He additionally alleged that whilst TMC leaders who had been unwilling to bend had been being pressured, BJP leaders who were considering more than a few circumstances had been allowed to move scot-free.

    Banerjee’s identify cropped up in a grievance filed by means of Kuntal Ghosh the place he alleged that central investigating companies had been pressuring him to call Abhishek Banerjee within the college rip-off case.

    KOLKATA: CBI officials puzzled TMC chief Abhishek Banerjee, who seemed sooner than them Saturday as a part of the company’s probe into the varsity jobs rip-off, for greater than 9 hours sooner than letting the younger flesh presser out.

    Banerjee instructed newspersons conserving vigil outdoor the Nizam Palace administrative center of the CBI, that the wondering was once a waste of time for each him and the CBI officials, however that he “cooperated in all that was once requested.”

    “I used to be puzzled for 9 and-a-half hours by means of CBI. Wondering was once a waste of time for them (CBI officials) in addition to for me,” mentioned Banerjee after rising from Nizam Palace.googletag.cmd.push(serve as() googletag.show(‘div-gpt-ad-8052921-2’); );

    He claimed the actual explanation why he was once referred to as in was once as a result of, he had refused to be a “puppy canine of Delhi’s bosses” and for this reason he has been “focused.”

    He additionally alleged that whilst TMC leaders who had been unwilling to bend had been being pressured, BJP leaders who were considering more than a few circumstances had been allowed to move scot-free.

    Banerjee’s identify cropped up in a grievance filed by means of Kuntal Ghosh the place he alleged that central investigating companies had been pressuring him to call Abhishek Banerjee within the college rip-off case.

  • Calcutta HC pass judgement on Abhijit Gangopadhyay seeks record submitted earlier than CJI on him

    By way of PTI

    KOLKATA: Justice Abhijit Gangopadhyay on Friday directed the secretary basic of the Ideally suited Courtroom to supply earlier than him by way of middle of the night a record submitted earlier than the bench of Leader Justice of India, which requested the Calcutta Prime Courtroom performing Leader Justice to reassign the West Bengal faculty jobs “rip-off” case to every other pass judgement on.

    He directed that the record and the legitimate translation of an interview given by way of him in a information channel and the affidavit of the Registrar Normal of the Calcutta Prime Courtroom be produced earlier than him in authentic by way of middle of the night of Friday.

    The apex court docket Friday requested the Calcutta Prime Courtroom performing leader justice to reassign the West Bengal faculty jobs “rip-off” case to every other pass judgement on after analyzing a record on Justice Abhijit Gangopadhyay’s interview to a information channel concerning the subject.

    “For the sake of transparency, I direct the Secretary Normal of the Hon’ble Ideally suited Courtroom of India to supply earlier than me the record and the legitimate translation of the interview given by way of me in media and the affidavit of the Registrar Normal of this Courtroom in authentic, forthwith by way of 12 middle of the night as of late,” Justice Gangopadhyay mentioned.

    He stated that he’ll be ready in his chamber until 12:15 am “to get the stated two units in authentic which have been positioned earlier than the Hon’ble Judges of the Ideally suited Courtroom as of late.”

    Listening to a plea of senior TMC chief Abhishek Banerjee, a bench comprising Leader Justice D Y Chandrachud and Justice P S Narasimha took be aware of the record of the Registrar Normal of the Calcutta Prime Courtroom and stated the case must be reassigned to a bench headed by way of every other pass judgement on.

    Previous, the highest court docket had sought a record from the Registrar Normal of the Calcutta Prime Courtroom on whether or not Justice Abhijit Gangopadhyay gave an interview to a information channel concerning the faculty jobs “rip-off” case in West Bengal.

    ALSO READ | CJI raps Calcutta HC pass judgement on, says he has no trade giving media interview on pending case

    KOLKATA: Justice Abhijit Gangopadhyay on Friday directed the secretary basic of the Ideally suited Courtroom to supply earlier than him by way of middle of the night a record submitted earlier than the bench of Leader Justice of India, which requested the Calcutta Prime Courtroom performing Leader Justice to reassign the West Bengal faculty jobs “rip-off” case to every other pass judgement on.

    He directed that the record and the legitimate translation of an interview given by way of him in a information channel and the affidavit of the Registrar Normal of the Calcutta Prime Courtroom be produced earlier than him in authentic by way of middle of the night of Friday.

    The apex court docket Friday requested the Calcutta Prime Courtroom performing leader justice to reassign the West Bengal faculty jobs “rip-off” case to every other pass judgement on after analyzing a record on Justice Abhijit Gangopadhyay’s interview to a information channel concerning the subject.googletag.cmd.push(serve as() googletag.show(‘div-gpt-ad-8052921-2’); );

    “For the sake of transparency, I direct the Secretary Normal of the Hon’ble Ideally suited Courtroom of India to supply earlier than me the record and the legitimate translation of the interview given by way of me in media and the affidavit of the Registrar Normal of this Courtroom in authentic, forthwith by way of 12 middle of the night as of late,” Justice Gangopadhyay mentioned.

    He stated that he’ll be ready in his chamber until 12:15 am “to get the stated two units in authentic which have been positioned earlier than the Hon’ble Judges of the Ideally suited Courtroom as of late.”

    Listening to a plea of senior TMC chief Abhishek Banerjee, a bench comprising Leader Justice D Y Chandrachud and Justice P S Narasimha took be aware of the record of the Registrar Normal of the Calcutta Prime Courtroom and stated the case must be reassigned to a bench headed by way of every other pass judgement on.

    Previous, the highest court docket had sought a record from the Registrar Normal of the Calcutta Prime Courtroom on whether or not Justice Abhijit Gangopadhyay gave an interview to a information channel concerning the faculty jobs “rip-off” case in West Bengal.

    ALSO READ | CJI raps Calcutta HC pass judgement on, says he has no trade giving media interview on pending case

  • 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.

  • 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

  • College jobs rip-off: ED will get 10 days’ custody of arrested Bengal minister, affiliate

    By means of PTI

    KOLKATA: A Kolkata courtroom on Monday granted 10 days’ Enforcement Directorate (ED) custody of West Bengal minister Partha Chatterjee and his alleged affiliate Arpita Mukherjee, who had been arrested in reference to its probe into the college jobs rip-off.

    The ED had prayed for 14 days’ custody of Chatterjee, mentioning that AIIMS, Bhubaneswar has stated in a file after clinical exam of the minister on a Calcutta Prime Court docket order that no lively intervention is needed over his well being.

    Rejecting a bail prayer of the minister, particular ED Court docket pass judgement on Jibon Kumar Sadhu at Bankshall courtroom right here granted ED custody of the minister and in addition of Mukherjee until August 3.

    The courtroom directed in its order which came to visit 11 pm that the 2 accused individuals, who had been arrested on July 22, be produced earlier than it once more on August 3.

    The ED prayed for 14 days’ custody of Chatterjee claiming that he has been in state-run SSKM Sanatorium allegedly faking sickness and thus the company may no longer query him throughout the two-day remand granted via the CMM in-charge courtroom on Saturday. The company additionally prayed for Mukherjee’s custody for 13 days.

    Calcutta Prime courtroom on Sunday directed that Chatterjee be taken to AIIMS, Bhubaneswar, for a clinical check-up via consultants of quite a lot of departments on Monday morning. The pass judgement on directed that clinical exam be performed of each the accused each and every 48 hours in their detention in ED custody.

    The courtroom directed the investigating officer to not inflict torture upon the accused individuals. The investigating officer was once directed to not matter Mukherjee to custodial interrogation between 9 pm and six pm.

    KOLKATA: A Kolkata courtroom on Monday granted 10 days’ Enforcement Directorate (ED) custody of West Bengal minister Partha Chatterjee and his alleged affiliate Arpita Mukherjee, who had been arrested in reference to its probe into the college jobs rip-off.

    The ED had prayed for 14 days’ custody of Chatterjee, mentioning that AIIMS, Bhubaneswar has stated in a file after clinical exam of the minister on a Calcutta Prime Court docket order that no lively intervention is needed over his well being.

    Rejecting a bail prayer of the minister, particular ED Court docket pass judgement on Jibon Kumar Sadhu at Bankshall courtroom right here granted ED custody of the minister and in addition of Mukherjee until August 3.

    The courtroom directed in its order which came to visit 11 pm that the 2 accused individuals, who had been arrested on July 22, be produced earlier than it once more on August 3.

    The ED prayed for 14 days’ custody of Chatterjee claiming that he has been in state-run SSKM Sanatorium allegedly faking sickness and thus the company may no longer query him throughout the two-day remand granted via the CMM in-charge courtroom on Saturday. The company additionally prayed for Mukherjee’s custody for 13 days.

    Calcutta Prime courtroom on Sunday directed that Chatterjee be taken to AIIMS, Bhubaneswar, for a clinical check-up via consultants of quite a lot of departments on Monday morning. The pass judgement on directed that clinical exam be performed of each the accused each and every 48 hours in their detention in ED custody.

    The courtroom directed the investigating officer to not inflict torture upon the accused individuals. The investigating officer was once directed to not matter Mukherjee to custodial interrogation between 9 pm and six pm.

  • West Bengal minister Partha Chatterjee: Scams come-a-calling

    By means of PTI

    KOLKATA: The over-five-decade-long political profession of senior TMC chief Partha Chatterjee turns out to have won an enormous jolt with the Enforcement Directorate arresting him on Saturday in reference to its investigation into the alleged college jobs rip-off in West Bengal.

    Chatterjee, 69, who right now holds the trade and state parliamentary affairs portfolios of the Mamata Banerjee govt, was once the training minister from 2014 to 2021, all the way through which the alleged irregularities in trainer recruitment took place.

    He stepped into politics as a pacesetter of Congress scholars’ wing – Chatra Parishad – within the overdue sixties all the way through his school years, impressed by means of then firebrand early life leaders Subrata Mukherjee and Priya Ranjan Dasmunsi.

    His political profession halted after he took up a high-profile company task within the mid-seventies however he stored in contact with then Congress leaders.

    Chatterjee determined to take a plunge into energetic politics after Banerjee broke clear of the Congress and shaped the TMC on January 1, 1998.

    He went directly to win from the Behala Paschim Meeting constituency for 5 consecutive phrases since 2001 on a TMC price tag.

    Chatterjee’s excessive level in his political profession got here in 2006 when he was once appointed because the chief of the TMC get together within the meeting and later chief of the opposition.

    As Banerjee fought towards the mighty Left Entrance regime at the streets of Bengal at the factor of forcible land acquisition in Singur and Nandigram, Chatterjee was the voice of the opposition within the meeting.

    Chatterjee was once at the leading edge when his get together took on then leader minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharya within the meeting at the problems with land acquisitions.

    Throughout that duration in 2007, he was once appointed as TMC’s secretary-general by means of Banerjee.

    READ HERE | Trainer recruitment rip-off: Arrested Bengal minister Partha Chatterjee hospitalised

    After the get together got here to energy 4 years later, he was once given rate of trade and parliamentary affairs.

    On the other hand, in a cupboard reshuffle in 2014, he was once got rid of from the trade division and entrusted with the duty of training.

    Thought to be a loyalist of the get together supremo, Chatterjee, in conjunction with a couple of others, was once at the leading edge in main the previous guards all the way through the alleged inner-party fight between the younger brigade and the veterans that broke out within the TMC in January-February this 12 months.

    After the get together returned to energy for the 3rd consecutive time in 2021, he was once given the rate of trade and parliamentary affairs departments.

    He’s referred to as an affable and approachable chief in political circles.

    His identify had additionally cropped up in a Ponzi scheme, which was once being probed by means of the Central Bureau of Investigation.

    He has, on the other hand, denied the allegations as politically motivated.

    The Trinamool Congress secretary overall was once arrested by means of the ED after round 26 hours of grilling in his place of dwelling since Friday morning in reference to its probe into the alleged college jobs rip-off.

    He was once later produced prior to a pass judgement on within the Bankshall courtroom right here and despatched to the ED custody for 2 days.

    KOLKATA: The over-five-decade-long political profession of senior TMC chief Partha Chatterjee turns out to have won an enormous jolt with the Enforcement Directorate arresting him on Saturday in reference to its investigation into the alleged college jobs rip-off in West Bengal.

    Chatterjee, 69, who right now holds the trade and state parliamentary affairs portfolios of the Mamata Banerjee govt, was once the training minister from 2014 to 2021, all the way through which the alleged irregularities in trainer recruitment took place.

    He stepped into politics as a pacesetter of Congress scholars’ wing – Chatra Parishad – within the overdue sixties all the way through his school years, impressed by means of then firebrand early life leaders Subrata Mukherjee and Priya Ranjan Dasmunsi.

    His political profession halted after he took up a high-profile company task within the mid-seventies however he stored in contact with then Congress leaders.

    Chatterjee determined to take a plunge into energetic politics after Banerjee broke clear of the Congress and shaped the TMC on January 1, 1998.

    He went directly to win from the Behala Paschim Meeting constituency for 5 consecutive phrases since 2001 on a TMC price tag.

    Chatterjee’s excessive level in his political profession got here in 2006 when he was once appointed because the chief of the TMC get together within the meeting and later chief of the opposition.

    As Banerjee fought towards the mighty Left Entrance regime at the streets of Bengal at the factor of forcible land acquisition in Singur and Nandigram, Chatterjee was the voice of the opposition within the meeting.

    Chatterjee was once at the leading edge when his get together took on then leader minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharya within the meeting at the problems with land acquisitions.

    Throughout that duration in 2007, he was once appointed as TMC’s secretary-general by means of Banerjee.

    READ HERE | Trainer recruitment rip-off: Arrested Bengal minister Partha Chatterjee hospitalised

    After the get together got here to energy 4 years later, he was once given rate of trade and parliamentary affairs.

    On the other hand, in a cupboard reshuffle in 2014, he was once got rid of from the trade division and entrusted with the duty of training.

    Thought to be a loyalist of the get together supremo, Chatterjee, in conjunction with a couple of others, was once at the leading edge in main the previous guards all the way through the alleged inner-party fight between the younger brigade and the veterans that broke out within the TMC in January-February this 12 months.

    After the get together returned to energy for the 3rd consecutive time in 2021, he was once given the rate of trade and parliamentary affairs departments.

    He’s referred to as an affable and approachable chief in political circles.

    His identify had additionally cropped up in a Ponzi scheme, which was once being probed by means of the Central Bureau of Investigation.

    He has, on the other hand, denied the allegations as politically motivated.

    The Trinamool Congress secretary overall was once arrested by means of the ED after round 26 hours of grilling in his place of dwelling since Friday morning in reference to its probe into the alleged college jobs rip-off.

    He was once later produced prior to a pass judgement on within the Bankshall courtroom right here and despatched to the ED custody for 2 days.