Partha Chatterjee News
WB School Jobs Scam: Opposing the bail plea, the counsel for ED submitted that Partha Chatterjee is a very influential person and granting bail to him at this stage will hamper the investigation.
Partha Chatterjee, who was implicated in the SSC recruitment scam, identified three opposition party leaders in the state before testifying in court.
Sujan Chakraborty, Dilip Ghosh, and Subhendu Adhikari are the leaders of the CPM, BJP, and respectively.
The accusations made by Partha were also visible in Trinamool spokesperson Kunal Ghosh's tweet 18 minutes prior to Partha's address.
The scope of investigations into recruitment scam cases is expanding from the political sphere to the world of entertainment.
The ED asserts that Tollywood has received money from recruitment corruption after analysing the information it got from Hooghly Trinamool leader Kuntal Ghosh.
Several actors' names have reportedly already been mentioned, according to ED sources.
Call it a coincidence but the instances of examination paper leaks happened during the tenure of former West Bengal education minister Partha Chatterjee, who is in judicial custody as the purported mastermind in the multi-crore teachers` recruitment scam.
In the initial days after his arrest by the Enforcement Directorate (ED) in July last year, Chatterjee had talked about the conspiracy theory more than once.
Shantanu Banerjee, another ruling party youth leader close to Trinamool Congress youth leader Kuntal Ghosh, was summoned on Wednesday.
Shantanu's house in Hooghly was raided and many documents related to a recruitment scam were recovered.
ED sources claim that Tapas and Shantanu were questioned for a long time in front of Kuntal Ghosh.
The Saraswati puja pandal in Kolkata highlights Bengal Teacher Recruitment Scam.
The Puja pandal is divided into three sections. The first section shows shops where an unqualified candidate can become a teacher by paying huge money.
Inside the shop, former Bengal Minister Partha Chatterjee and his close aid Arpita Mukherjee can be seen standing surrounded by money and gold.
Partha Chatterjee SSC scam: Partha Chatterjee was arrested by the Enforcement Directorate (ED) on July 23 after huge amounts of cash, jewellery and property deeds were seized from the apartments of his alleged close associate Arpita Mukherjee. He was taken into CBI custody on September 16 on a court order.
The teenager`s family has met senior police officials and have urged them to take strict action against the woman and rescue the girl.
Kolkata, Dec 20 (PTI) Facing criticism over the arrest of several party leaders in corruption cases, senior TMC MP Sougata Roy on Tuesday claimed that 98 per cent of "our workers are honest and upright", and the leadership has already taken action against the "two per cent rotten apples".
Former education minister Partha Chatterjee is keeping the prison staff on their toes about everything from bathing to food.
Prison authorities and prison guards are all unhappy with his 'unfair' activities.
Even after all his demands are dismissed, he continues to make the same appeal.
On October 31, the court sent him to 14-day jail custody.
That period expired on Saturday.
After that, Partha Chatterjee was taken to court again on Monday.
Trinamool MLA Madan Mitra attended a function in Kamarhati on Tuesday.
He made several controversial comments there.
TMC is uncomfortable with such comments of the party MLA.
Along with Partha Chatterjee, the court also extended the judicial custody till same peroid for former WBSSC chairman and former vice-chancellor of the University of North Bengal, Subiresh Bhattacharya and former president of West Bengal Board of Secondary Education (WBBSE), Kalyanmoy Gangopadhyay, co-accused in the case.
Around Rs 50 crore in cash, crores of gold and foreign currency were recovered from the flats of his 'Intimate Friend' Arpita Mukherjee.
Partha and Arpita are currently in jail custody.
After a long time, Partha came to Alipur court to appear in person on Monday.
The ED has gathered big evidence in the WB SSC scam
The agency has reportedly seized a CD and a letter mentioning Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee
All these evidence point to the involvement of several high-profile persons in the multi-crore WB SSC scam
The ED has arrested TMC MLA Manik Bhattacharya in connection with the WBSSC scam
He is the former president of the West Bengal Primary Education Board
He is the second high-profile TMC MLA to be arrested after Partha Chatterjee in connection with the WBSSC scam
Former Bengal minister Partha Chatterjee's judicial custody has been extended by 14 days.
TMC veteran Sovandeb Chattopadhyay has regretted bringing Partha Chatterjee into politics
Chattopadhyay played a key role in pursuing Chatterjee to give up his corporate job and join politics in 2001
Partha is an accused in the multi-crore WB SSC scam
Partha Chatterjee is often humiliated by other inmates at the Kolkata jail
He faces a great deal of risk to his life
Due to security reasons, Parth will not be able to participate in Durga Puja
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