More cash and gold were recovered on Wednesday evening from one of the properties of Arpita Mukherjee, an aide of arrested West Bengal Industries and Commerce Minister Partha Chatterjee.
The Enforcement Directorate (ED) held raids at several properties of the Minister’s aide and the cash was recovered from one of the apartments of Ms. Mukherjee at Belghoria in northern fringes of the city. ED sources said that the cash recovered may well surpass the amount seized in the earlier raid on July 22. Along with cash, jewelry worth crores have also been seized. Sources said that the value of cash seized has already surpassed Rs 20 crore and the continue may continue well in the night .Several cash counting machines were brought in to estimate the amount of seized cash. . On June 22, cash and jewelry worth Rs 21 crore was recovered from an apartment of Arpita Mukherjee in south Kolkata.
Partha Chatterjee and Arpita Mukherjee were arrested by ED on June 23 after the first raid and recovery of cash. Both the Minister and his associate are under ED custody in connection with the School Service Commission (SSC) recruitment scam where jobs were allegedly given for monetary gains. Mr. Chatterjee was Minister of the Education Department from 2014 to 2021.
