bengal ssc recruitment exam scam

NEW DELHI: Besides the recovery of ₹49 crore cash and jewellery worth ₹5 crore, arrested former Trinamool Congress leader Partha Chatterjee had floated a partnership deed with his close aide and actor Arpita Mukherjee in 2012, the Enforcement Directorate (ED) probe into the West Bengal SSC teachers recruitment case has revealed. The revelations were made […]

NEW DELHI: After meeting Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)’s central leadership thrice in the past two days, the Bengal unit of the party has now sought time with Prime Minister Narendra Modi. The series of hectic meetings became important considering that West Bengal Chief minister Mamata Banerjee had sought time to meet PM Modi. Quite understandably, […]

KOLKATA: A Special Court in Kolkata has sent former Minister Partha Chatterjee and his close associate Arpita Mukherjee to two more days of ED custody till August 5th in the alleged SSC recruitment scam on Wednesday. But the war of words between the learned counsels from both sides once again lit up the courtroom. Looking […]

NEW DELHI: The Leader of Opposition in the Bengal assembly Suvendu Adhikari on Tuesday met Union home minister Amit Shah. The meeting came against the backdrop of the Enforcement Directorate (ED) tightening its noose around prominent Trinamool Congress leader Partha Chatterjee in the multi-crore SSC Recruitment Scam. Sources told The New Indian that Adhikari briefed […]

KOLKATA: Amidst mounting pressure, Trinamool Congress (TMC) on Thursday suspended Partha Chatterjee from the party till the investigations are over. The TMC disciplinary committee met in Kolkata today and took the decision to suspend Chatterjee, a fellow committee member as well as an influential party leader. TMC’s all-powerful national general secretary Abhishek Banerjee announced, “Partha […]

KOLKATA: The Enforcement Directorate (ED) continues to make inroads in the Bengal SSC Recruitment Scam as they are now searching at four more premises related to Arpita Mukherjee, the aide of former Bengal minister Partha Chatterjee. ED is searching Mukherjee’s New Town and Baguihati flats. ED sources said that four more ‘close female aides’, including […]

KOLKATA: Sharpening its voice against the SSC Recruitment Scam, West Bengal Pradesh Congress Committee plans to organise a massive protest rally and agitation programme on Saturday. West Bengal Pradesh Congress president Adhir Ranjan Choudhury will be present in the protest rally that will begin from PCC Headquarters, Bidhan Bhavan to Dharmatala Y Channel. The protest […]

KOLKATA: In a big development in the ongoing Enforcement Directorate (ED) investigation into the Bengal SSC Recruitment Scam, Arpita Mukherjee said that state industries minister Partha Chatterjee used to keep money at her home. Mukherjee, a key aide of the Bengal minister, is in the spotlight after ED recovered more than ₹51 crores from her […]

NEW DELHI: Even as the Enforcement Directorate (ED) arrested Bengal government Minister and Trinamool Congress leader Partha Chatterjee, the financial probe agency had registered a case of money laundering against him in June this year on the basis of the CBI FIR registered on the orders of the Calcutta High Court. The ED case alleged […]

KOLKATA: The medical report prepared by the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) in Bhubaneswar has taken a direct swipe at the tainted Mamata government minister Partha Chatterjee, saying the medical examination done on him did not yield any indication or signs of fresh ailment in him, thereby ruling out any stay or treatment […]