The court also sent former WBBSE president Kalyanmoy Ganguly, former West Bengal SSC secretary Ashok Saha and former SSC advisor SP Sinha to judicial custody till October 19.
The court also sent former WBBSE president Kalyanmoy Ganguly, former West Bengal SSC secretary Ashok Saha and former SSC advisor SP Sinha to judicial custody till October 19.
A special CBI court in Alipore has extended the judicial custody here. Former West Bengal Minister Partha Chatterjee till 19 October in respect of Central agency investigation In School Service Commission (SSC) Recruitment Scam,
The court on Wednesday sent former West Bengal Board of Secondary Education (WBBSE) chairman Kalyanmoy Ganguly, former West Bengal School Service Commission (SSC) secretary Ashok Saha and former SSC advisor SP Sinha to judicial custody till October. 19 At the request of CBI, which is probing the scam as per an order Calcutta High Court,
Mr Chatterjee and his alleged close aide Arpita Mukherjee were arrested on July 23 by the Enforcement Directorate (ED), which is probing the money laundering case in the SSC recruitment scam. In addition to the works of the city, bullion, jewelery and property.
The ED has alleged that Mr. Chatterjee and Ms. Mukherjee, on the recommendations of the School Service Commission (SSC) in a state-sponsored and aided school, indulged in criminal conspiracy to illegally offer teaching post jobs and laundered money in large numbers. earned income. Of crime.
It stated in the chargesheet submitted before the PMLA court that the total value of the seizure, including cash, amounted to more than ₹100 crore.
It has been said by the agency that Ms. Mukherjee’s close links with Mr. Chatterjee’s family members have been found in a company registered at a previously owned address in Belghoria, on the northern outskirts of Kolkata, from where cash amounting to ₹27.90 crore was seized. Gone.
The ED had also recovered Rs 21.90 crore in cash from a flat in south Kolkata where Ms Mukherjee lived.
The CBI had obtained Mr. Chatterjee’s custody for questioning on September 16, and was thereafter remanded to judicial custody from September 21.
The former minister is also in judicial custody in the ED case.
Mr Chatterjee was relieved of his ministerial post by the Mamata Banerjee government soon after his arrest, while the TMC, too, removed him from his posts in the party, including general secretary.
He was the education minister when the scam was allegedly exposed.