Trinamool Congress (TMC) top brass is perhaps faced with its biggest political crisis ever since Mamata Banerjee broke away from the Congress to form her own party in January 1998. The arrest of West Bengal Commerce and Industries Minister Partha Chatterjee and his continuation in the West Bengal Cabinet is enough to suggest what it […]
KOLKATA: After Enforcement Directorate (ED) arrested Trinamool Congress (TMC) MLA Partha Chatterjee in connection with the multi-crore SSC Scam, rumours were rife of the party abandoning the Bengal minister. Now, the arrest memo, which was accessed by The New Indian, suggested that Chatterjee had tried to reach TMC supremo and Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee […]
NEW DELHI: Calcutta High Court on Sunday ordered to shift arrested All India Trinamool Congress (AITC) Minister Partha Chatterjee to All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS), Bhubaneswar from Kolkata’s SSKM Super Speciality Hospital. The High Court order came after the Enforcement Directorate (ED) approached it challenging a lower court order of sending arrested Bengal […]
KOLKATA: All India Trinamool Congress (AITC) seems to have distanced itself from Industries minister Partha Chatterjee and his aide Arpita Mukherjee, who were under Enforcement Directorate (ED)’s custody in relation to the Bengal SSC Recruitment Scam case. In an official reaction, following the arrests of Chatterjee, AITC, on Sunday, said that the money recovered by […]
KOLKATA: There seems to be no respite for Arpita Mukherjee, the aide of key accused in the multi crore SSC scam and Bengal industries minister Partha Chatterjee after the Bankshall Court rejected her bail plea on Sunday. Mukherjee will be under ED remand for one day before being brought to Bankshall special court tomorrow morning […]
KOLKATA: A fight has erupted between Enforcement Directorate (ED) and Bengal Industries Minister Partho Chatterjee’s lawyer over his hospital stay. The ED arrested the state’s former Education Minister Chatterjee on Saturday, July 23, in connection with the SSC corruption case on Saturday morning after questioning him for 27 hours. Chatterjee, 69 is admitted to state-run […]
KOLKATA: Arrested All India Trinamool Congress (AITC) leader and Bengal government Minister Partha Chatterjee along with his close aide Arpita Mukherjee, who was also arrested on Saturday evening, had floated several shell companies under the names of different persons and laundered money. The revelations were made in court on Friday by the Enforcement Directorate (ED) […]
NEW DELHI: Enforcement Directorate (ED) on Friday carried out searches at several locations, including the premises of Partha Chatterjee, the Minister of Commerce and Industry in the Bengal government. The financial probe agency made the searches in connection with its probe into recruitment scams in the West Bengal School Service Commission and West Bengal Primary […]