WBSSC Scam: Farmhouse in Shantiniketan purchased jointly by Partha Chatterjee, Arpita Mukherjee for Rs 20 lakh in 2012, says ED | File
Kolkata: The Enforcement Directorate (ED) on Saturday once again raided the Tollygunge flat of Arpita Mukherjee where nearly Rs 22 crore cash was recovered, along with jewellery worth lakhs and property deeds.
The ED sources also revealed that several student leaders are also under the scanner of the central agency in connection with the multi-crore recruitment scam.
“Along with the student leaders, the relatives and other close aides of both Arpita and arrested former TMC minister Partha Chatterjee are also under scanner. The ED has also frozen eight accounts of Arpita,” said the ED sources.
The ED sources also mentioned that Arpita and Chatterjee knew each other much before the latter became the state education minister in 2014.
“The farm house in Shantiniketan named ‘APA’ was bought from a Kolkata-based Bengali family at a price of 20 lakh rupees in 2012 under the name of Arpita and Chatterjee. After the construction of the mansion, the mutation was done in 2020 under Arpita’s name,” said the ED sources, also adding that the details of more properties of the duo will be revealed soon.
The ED sources also mentioned that on Friday night Arpita again broke down while being interrogated while Chatterjee was ‘firm’ and avoided most of the questions of the agency.
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