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KOLKATA: The skeletons started tumbling out of the closet on Wednesday as the Enforcement Directorate (ED) recovered more cash from Arpita Mukherjee’s Belghoria residence in Kolkata. ED conducted the searches in connection with the Bengal SSC Recruitment Scam after the financial probe agency got the 10-day custody of Mukherjee, a close aide of Bengal industries […]

KOLKATA: From the plush accommodation to a makeshift lock-up on the seventh floor of Kolkata’s Enforcement Directorate (ED) office, the change in fortune of Bengal industries minister Partha Chatterjee was quite apparent. ED sources told The New Indian that Partha Chatterjee is living in a 7 by 8 feet well-furnished room at the office. However, […]

KOLKATA: The ₹21 crores SSC Recruitment scam, that involved one of the top leaders of the ruling Trinamool Congress (TMC), is like an onion, opined Enforcement Directorate (ED) counsel Abhijit Bhadra. Talking to The New Indian, Bhadra said, “This stage of the investigation is just like an onion. The more you peel, the more you […]

NEW DELHI: Days after the Enforcement Directorate (ED) arrested Trinamool Congress leader Bengal Minister Partha Chatterjee and his aide and actor Arpita Mukherjee, the financial probe agency has summoned another party MLA Manik Bhattacharya in connection with the teachers’ recruitment scam. A senior ED official related to the probe told The New Indian, “Bhattacharya has […]

NEW DELHI: The Enforcement Directorate (ED) recovered a black diary of Bengal department of school education and higher education during searches at a flat of arrested state minister Partha Chatterjee’s aide Arpita Mukherjee in the teacher recruitment case. Chatterjee held the education portfolio when the irregularities in the recruitment allegedly took place. Partha and Arpita […]

KOLKATA: At the special court’s hearing regarding the SSC scam matter, the Enforcement Directorate (ED) on Monday produced a deed that shows that both the accused — West Bengal tainted minister Partha Chatterjee and his aide Arpita Mukherjee —  are associated with each other since 2012. “During the search at residential premises of Arpita Mukherjee, […]

NEW DELHI: Reacting to All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS), Bhubaneswar’s report that Bengal Minister Partha Chatterjee requires no hospitalisation, Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)’s West Bengal co-in-charge Amit Malviya said that Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee has institutionalised depravity and corruption. “AIIMS, Bhubaneswar’s report on arrested TMC minister Partha Chaterjee raises several questions on […]

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 […]

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: 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 […]