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He is later to be produced in court.<\/p>\n<p>ED officers have questioned him for over 24 hours, from the time they reached his house on Friday morning at around 7 am.<\/p>\n<p>The ED on Friday recovered Rs 20 crore in cash from the house of an associate of West Bengal commerce and industries and Information Technology minister Partha Chatterjee. The ED raided the house of Arpita Mukherjee in Kolkata in connection with an alleged scam. The Central probe agency on Friday evening released a statement which stated: \u201cThe said amount in suspected to be proceeds of crime of the said SSC scam.\u201d The probe agency took the assistance of bank officials and counted the cash through machines. Notes of Rs 2000 and Rs 500 recovered during the raid could be seen in photographs. Also, about 20 mobile phones were recovered from Arpita Chatterjee\u2019s house. 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