Bengal SSC rip-off: Partha Chatterjee is again in Kolkata, might be questioned by ED
New Delhi:
Partha Chatterjee, a minister in Mamata Banerjee’s authorities in West Bengal, has been introduced again to Kolkata this morning for questioning by the Enforcement Directorate, a day after he was flown to Odisha’s capital Bhubaneshwar for a medical check-up.
The medical doctors at AIIMS Bhubaneshwar, nevertheless, cleared Mr Chatterjee – at whose aide Arpita Mukherjee’s house a room full of money price Rs 20 crore was found last week – as somebody with power well being points however who does not want a hospital keep.
After he was arrested on Saturday final week, Mr Chatterjee had gone the state government-run SSKM Hospital in Kolkata for a well being check-up and received some assessments achieved. Throughout a bail listening to, the investigators alleged the Bengal minister of attempting to play the sickness card to evade questioning. Even the Calcutta Excessive Court docket in a stern order stated it could not be troublesome for Mr Chatterjee, given “immense energy and place”, to “evade interrogation”.
Mr Chatterjee’s lawyer stated SSKM Hospital would have given the identical medical report as AIIMS Bhubaneswar, and the Enforcement Directorate is answerable for the air ambulance and associated bills.
Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee yesterday attacked the BJP over why the minister needed to be taken to the All-India Institute of Medical Sciences, or AIIMS, in Bhubaneswar when he may have been given the identical therapy in Kolkata.
Ms Banerjee stated the probe company wished to shift the minister to Bhubaneswar to make use of the centre’s affect. Slamming the transfer, she stated, “I used to be ashamed. They stated they needed to take him to Odisha for therapy. SSKM Hospital is among the finest hospitals within the nation. We now have so many medical faculties and hospitals. We even have good personal hospitals. Why do you need to take him to a hospital which has a central authorities contact? Why ESI Hospital? Why Command Hospital? What’s the intention? They are saying they must take him to AIIMS in Odisha. Is that this not an insult to the folks of Bengal? What do you suppose? Is the centre harmless and the states are all thieves? You’re there due to the states.”
Bengal SSC rip-off: Rs 20 crore money was discovered throughout a raid on the house of Arpita Mukherjee, the aide of arrested West Bengal Minister Partha Chatterjee.
The Enforcement Directorate will query Mr Chatterjee at their Kolkata workplace beginning right now. The excessive courtroom has instructed the investigators to test the well being of the minister and his aide, Ms Mukherjee, each 48 hours whereas in custody.
Ms Mukherjee cannot be interrogated between 9 pm and 6 am, and a lady officer should at all times stay together with her throughout questioning “with strict regard to decency”, the courtroom had ordered.
The central probe company can hold the minister and his aide of their custody until August 3.
Ms Banerjee spoke on the matter after a buzz on Monday morning that Mr Chatterjee’s calls to her after his arrest had all gone unanswered. It was seen because the Chief Minister’s try and distance herself from the minister, one among her prime aides who’s now battling corruption allegations.
The alleged rip-off occurred when Mr Chatterjee was Bengal Training Minister. A small-time actor, Arpita Mukherjee, was the face of promotional campaigns for Mr Chatterjee’s Durga Puja committee in 2019 and 2020 earlier than her title surfaced throughout investigation into the Faculty Service Fee, or SSC rip-off.