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Former TMC Leader Partha Chatterjee Alleges conspiracy Against Him

Paratha Chatterjee

West Bengal Chief Minister and TMC chief Mamata Banerjee on Thursday removed  Mr. Chatterjee from all party posts, he was earlier sacked as minister in the West Bengal government.

Sacked Trinamool Congress leader Partha Chatterjee,  has alleged that he is being framed in a conspiracy. This comes at a time when his close aide Arpita Mukherjee injured her feet in a fall. She was seen being taken inside a hospital in a wheelchair.

West Bengal Chief Minister and TMC chief Mamata Banerjee on Thursday, removed  Mr. Chatterjee from all party posts, he was earlier sacked as minister in the West Bengal government.

The Enforcement Directorate (ED) on Wednesday, seized another Rs 28.90 crore in cash, at least 5 kg gold, and several documents at the second apartment of Arpita Mukherjee, a close aide of arrested Trinamool Congress leader  Partha Chatterjee, days after the recovery of RS 21 crore from her first flat. It took ED Officials 10 hours to count the money, and a huge amount of money was recovered from the toilet.

Last week, ED officials found Rs 21 crore in cash from the house of Arpita Mukherjee. The federal probe agency had raided the residence of Arpita Mukherjee in connection with an alleged teacher recruitment scam in West Bengal. The recovered amount is suspected to be the proceeds of crime from the scam.

In the first raid, the ED found Rs 21.90 crore in cash, Rs 56 lakh in foreign currency, and gold worth Rs 76 lakh. The total seizure stood at Rs 23.22 crore.

In its second raid, the probe agency has recovered Rs 20 crore in cash so far – officials are still counting the cash, and gold bars worth Rs 2 crore.

 

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