LIVE: Arpita Mukherjees 4 missing vehicles under ED scanner - Check latest news on WBSSC scam, Partha Chatterjee
LIVE: Arpita Mukherjees 4 missing vehicles under ED scanner - Check latest news on WBSSC scam, Partha Chatterjee
LIVE UPDATES: West Bengal SSC Scam ED Raid News on Partha Chatterjee, Arpita Mukherjee - The Enforcement Directorate raided the third apartment linked to Arpita Mukherjee, the close associate of arrested West Bengal minister Partha Chatterjee, in the city's Chinar Park area after recovering around Rs 28 crore cash from another flat belonging to her.
The raid by the ED, which is probing the money trail of the school jobs scam, was conducted late Thursday evening, an official of the agency said.
As the door of the flat was locked and the keys could not be traced, the ED sleuths broke open its entrance door in the presence of central force officers.
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Partha Chatterjee and Arpita Mukherjee presented at ESI Hospital
Meanwhile, both Partha Chatterjee and Arpita Mukherjee were presented at the ESI Hospital in Joka in the southern outskirts of Kolkata on Friday afternoon for medical examinations.
The reactions from the two were totally different.
Surprise over the missing vehicles
Meanwhile, expressing surprise over the missing vehicles, BJP`s national vice president and party MP Dilip Ghosh said that surely there was negligence on the part of the ED officials that led to such a development. "The central agency officials should be careful when they are handling such sensitive cases," he said.
Existence of cash
-The ED sleuths do not rule out the existence of cash, gold or other crucial documents in the missing four vehicles.
-It is learnt that out of the four vehicles Arpita Mukherjee used the two Mercedes Benz vehicles and the remaining three vehicles were used for other purposes.
Four of the five vehicles went missing
However, ED sources confirmed that by the time they concluded the search and seizure operations on July 23 early morning, four of the five vehicles went missing. "We have been able to trace just one white- colour Mercedes Benz vehicle, which we have confiscated. We are trying to track the remaining four vehicles and checking the CCTV footage in the housing complex within the period when these vehicles went missing," confirmed a central agency official.
Mercedes Benz , Honda City, Honda CR-V and Audi A4
According to the ED sleuths, five parking slots were reserved for Arpita Mukherjee at the Diamond City complex. And as per records five high-end vehicles, which include two Mercedes Benz vehicles, one Honda City, one Honda CR-V and Audi A4, were parked there till July 22 evening when the Central agency sleuths started raiding her flat in this housing complex.
Huge treasures recovered
The central agency sleuths recovered huge treasures for the first time on July 22 from the Tollygunge residence.
WBSSC scam: Four missing vehicles of Arpita Mukherjee under ED scanner
According to the ED sleuths, five parking slots were reserved for Arpita Mukherjee at the Diamond City complex.
And as per records five high-end vehicles, which include two Mercedes Benz vehicles, one Honda City, one Honda CR-V and Audi A4, were parked there till July 22 evening when the Central agency sleuths started raiding her flat in this housing complex.
Chatterjee, who was the education minister when the alleged irregularities took place, was arrested on July 23. He was stripped of all his cabinet portfolios and suspended from the ruling Trinamool Congress on Thursday.
CBI as directed by Calcutta High Court is probing the alleged irregularities committed in the recruitment of Group C and D staff as well as teachers in government-sponsored and aided schools on the recommendations of the West Bengal School Service Commission.
The value of the gold jewellery, believed to weigh several kilograms, is still being ascertained.
The central agency had seized over Rs 21 crore cash from another flat belonging to Mukherjee in Tollygunj area.
In the intervening night of Wednesday and Thursday ED sleuths had raided a flat belonging to Mukherjee in Belghoria area of the city and recovered around Rs 28 crore unaccounted cash besides large quantities of gold and silver.
The details of the Chinar Park flat was provided by Mukherjee herself during interrogation by the ED earlier in the day.
"We are talking to the neighbours and trying to find out what kind of activities were carried out here," he said.
"We are talking to the neighbours and trying to find out what kind of activities were carried out here," he said.
"This (Chinar Park) apartment belongs to Arpita Mukherjee and we suspect that like her other flats cash may be stacked here as well," the ED official said.
As the door of the flat was locked and the keys could not be traced, the ED sleuths broke open its entrance door in the presence of central force officers.
The raid by the ED, which is probing the money trail of the school jobs scam, was conducted late Thursday evening, an official of the agency said.
ED raided the third apartment linked to Arpita Mukherjee, the close associate of arrested West Bengal minister Partha Chatterjee, in the city's Chinar Park area after recovering around Rs 28 crore cash from another flat belonging to her.
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