SSC rip-off: HC extends former Bengal minister Partha Chatterjee’s judicial remand by 14 days

By PTI

KOLKATA: A particular courtroom on Thursday prolonged the judicial remand of former West Bengal minister Partha Chatterjee and his alleged shut aide Arpita Mukherjee, each arrested by the Enforcement Directorate within the faculty jobs rip-off, by 14 extra days.

After being in ED custody until August 5 following their arrest on July 23, Chatterjee and Mukherjee had been despatched to judicial remand by the PMLA (Prevention of Money Laundering Act) courtroom right here.

Rejecting a bail prayer of the previous minister, Judge Jibon Kumar Sadhu granted 14 days’ judicial remand of the 2 accused on a prayer by the ED until August 31.

On a prayer by the central investigating company, the courtroom granted permission to the ED to additional interrogate them within the correctional properties they’re lodged in.

Mukherjee didn’t make any bail prayer earlier than the courtroom on Thursday.

Chatterjee and Mukherjee had been arrested by the ED on July 23 in reference to its probe into the cash path in unlawful appointments of instructing and non-teaching employees in West Bengal government-sponsored and -aided faculties.

The ED has claimed to have recovered Rs 49.80 crore, jewelry and gold bars from flats owned by Mukherjee, Chatterjee’s alleged shut affiliate, and paperwork of properties and an organization in joint holdings.

Chatterjee has been relieved of his ministerial duties by the Mamata Banerjee authorities, whereas the Trinamool Congress has additionally eliminated him from all posts he held within the occasion following his arrest.

Claiming that 70-year-old Chatterjee suffers from power diseases and wishes lively medical intervention, his lawyer prayed for his bail on any situation.

The public prosecutor showing for the ED claimed that Chatterjee and Mukherjee are concerned in a legal conspiracy for illegally giving jobs for the put up of lecturers and cash recovered from her flats had been proceeds of crime.

He additionally claimed that seized paperwork reveal an in depth affiliation of Mukherjee with relations of the previous minister by means of an organization named Ananta Texfab Pvt Ltd and the deal with of it’s a flat at Belghoria within the northern outskirts of Kolkata, from the place money amounting to Rs 27.90 crore was seized.

It was alleged that Chatterjee and Mukherjee entered right into a partnership of equal share vide a partnership deed in November 2012 to type an organization named APA Utility Services.

Opposing the bail prayer, the ED counsel submitted that Chatterjee is an influential particular person as he’s a sitting MLA and will affect witnesses within the case.

Observing that the allegations towards the accused are very severe, the choose rejected Chatterjee’s bail prayer.

KOLKATA: A particular courtroom on Thursday prolonged the judicial remand of former West Bengal minister Partha Chatterjee and his alleged shut aide Arpita Mukherjee, each arrested by the Enforcement Directorate within the faculty jobs rip-off, by 14 extra days.

After being in ED custody until August 5 following their arrest on July 23, Chatterjee and Mukherjee had been despatched to judicial remand by the PMLA (Prevention of Money Laundering Act) courtroom right here.

Rejecting a bail prayer of the previous minister, Judge Jibon Kumar Sadhu granted 14 days’ judicial remand of the 2 accused on a prayer by the ED until August 31.

On a prayer by the central investigating company, the courtroom granted permission to the ED to additional interrogate them within the correctional properties they’re lodged in.

Mukherjee didn’t make any bail prayer earlier than the courtroom on Thursday.

Chatterjee and Mukherjee had been arrested by the ED on July 23 in reference to its probe into the cash path in unlawful appointments of instructing and non-teaching employees in West Bengal government-sponsored and -aided faculties.

The ED has claimed to have recovered Rs 49.80 crore, jewelry and gold bars from flats owned by Mukherjee, Chatterjee’s alleged shut affiliate, and paperwork of properties and an organization in joint holdings.

Chatterjee has been relieved of his ministerial duties by the Mamata Banerjee authorities, whereas the Trinamool Congress has additionally eliminated him from all posts he held within the occasion following his arrest.

Claiming that 70-year-old Chatterjee suffers from power diseases and wishes lively medical intervention, his lawyer prayed for his bail on any situation.

The public prosecutor showing for the ED claimed that Chatterjee and Mukherjee are concerned in a legal conspiracy for illegally giving jobs for the put up of lecturers and cash recovered from her flats had been proceeds of crime.

He additionally claimed that seized paperwork reveal an in depth affiliation of Mukherjee with relations of the previous minister by means of an organization named Ananta Texfab Pvt Ltd and the deal with of it’s a flat at Belghoria within the northern outskirts of Kolkata, from the place money amounting to Rs 27.90 crore was seized.

It was alleged that Chatterjee and Mukherjee entered right into a partnership of equal share vide a partnership deed in November 2012 to type an organization named APA Utility Services.

Opposing the bail prayer, the ED counsel submitted that Chatterjee is an influential particular person as he’s a sitting MLA and will affect witnesses within the case.

Observing that the allegations towards the accused are very severe, the choose rejected Chatterjee’s bail prayer.