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An Enforcement Directorate (ED) team arrested West Bengal minister Partha Chatterjee from his residence in Kolkata on Saturday morning.
The team had been questioning him at his residence since Friday in connection with the teacher recruitment scam case. The TMC secretary general, who was the state education minister from 2014 to 2021 when the scam took place, was arrested after around 26 hours of grilling in connection with the probe.
Chatterjee earlier was grilled by the Central Bureau of Investigation in April and May this year in connection with the scam.
“We are keeping a close watch on the situation. We will come out with a statement at an appropriate time,” TMC spokesperson Kunal Ghosh said.
The agency sleuths, who reached the residence of the minister in Kolkata at 8 am on Friday, arrested him after more than 12 hours of questioning.
ED officials have recovered Rs 20 crore in cash from one of the properties of Chatterjee’s close associate Arpita Mukherjee in south Kolkata, sources said.
Mukherjee has also been detained.
Chatterjee was the state education minister when the scam took place and ED is probing the money laundering aspect of those allegedly involved in it.
