The Enforcement Directorate (ED) on Saturday held Arpita Mukherjee, a close associate of West Bengal Commerce and Industries and Information minister Partha Chatterjee. The minister was arrested by the Central agency on Saturday morning and taken to its CGO complex office in Salt Lake, to be questioned further and produced in court later in the day.<\/p>\n
The ED on Friday recovered Rs 20 crore in cash from the house Arpita Mukherjee after raiding her Tollygunge home. The agency released a statement which stated: \u201cThe said amount is 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. Investigators are looking at the purpose for which these phones were used.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
The Enforcement Directorate (ED) on Saturday held Arpita Mukherjee, a close associate of West Bengal Commerce and Industries and Information minister Partha Chatterjee. The minister was arrested by the Central agency on Saturday morning and taken to its CGO complex office in Salt Lake, to be questioned further and produced in court later in the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1236,"featured_media":17353,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[5703,231,477,410,214,5702,583,46],"adace-sponsor":[],"class_list":["post-17352","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-new-bengal","tag-arpita-mukherjee","tag-cbi","tag-central-government-agencies","tag-enforcement-directorate","tag-partha-chatterjee","tag-ssc-scam","tag-top-story","tag-trinamool-congress"],"yoast_head":"\n