The Enforcement Directorate (ED), which is probing the money trail of the teacher recruitment scam in West Bengal, on Wednesday is conducting raids on four places, including a flat owned by Arpita Mukherjee, a close aide of arrested state minister Partha Chatterjee, in Belgharia and recovered a huge cache of currency notes. Earlier on Saturday, the ED had seized ₹21.9 crore in cash from another flat owned by Arpita.
The ED had to wait to carry out search operations at the flat at Belgharia in the city as its keys were not available and the personnel were trying to locate a locksmith. Central police personnel were waiting in the ground floor lobby of the building. News agency PTI reported that the search was on in another flat owned by Arpita at Kasba. The minister and his associate were arrested by the ED after more than ₹20 crore in cash, besides jewellery and foreign exchange were found from the latter’s apartment in south west Kolkata.
Chatterjee and Mukherjee were taken to the ESI hospital at Joka in the city amidst tight security for a health check-up. They were later brought back to the ED office for questioning.
