KOLKATA: When a blue mini-truck rolled into a condo in Tollygunge on Saturday afternoon and stopped at Tower 2, residents were taken aback to see 20 steel trunks in the vehicle’s carrier. They were sent by RBI, on ED’s request, apparently to take away the cash seized from Flat 1A.
The money, residents were told, belonged to Arpita Mukherjee, Partha Chatterjee’s close aide. Both have been arrested by the ED. Officers had also procured multiple machines to count the seized notes of Rs 2,000 and Rs 500 denominations. They added up to over Rs 21 crore. The raid—part of the probe into the SSC scam—had begun 16 hours earlier on Friday.
Residents said they had been seeing Mukherjee for eight-nine years. “She walked on the compound daily. She had access to two more flats on the 18th floor in the same tower. We also knew she had access to VVIPs. But what stood out was she had hired two help to take care of her dogs. We do not know if she owned all of them,” said a resident of Tower 3. Another actor, who is a neighbour, declined to comment.
