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"Who is going to believe a con artist? Everyone, if she is good": Following TMC minister Partha Chatterjee, his ‘close aide’ Arpita Mukherjee and ex personal secretary arrested by ED, more than ₹21 crores seized from residence of Arpita

ED had recovered more than Rs 21 crore in cash and other other valuables from Arpita Mukherjee's residence, which are said to be proceeds of the teacher recruitment scam when Parth Chaterjee was education minister
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Arpita Mukherjee, cash recovered from her residence
Arpita Mukherjee, cash recovered from her residence

A day after the Enforcement Directorate (ED) recuperated money of more than ₹21 crores from the home of Arpita Mukherjee, the focal organization officially captured the Bengali entertainer on Saturday (July 23). According to reports, Mukherjee was at first kept and taken to the ED office for addressing. Her capture comes hours after TMC Minister Partha Chatterjee was secured by the Enforcement Directorate.

The name of Arpita Mukherjee has sprung up in a trick relating to the enlistment of possibility for the West Bengal Primary Education Board and West Bengal School Service Commission, as money of more than Rs 21 crore and different resources have been recuperated from her home. As per the ED, the monstrous money stash is thought to be a continuation of wrongdoing regarding the SSC enrollment trick. The visuals of Rs 2000 and Rs 500 notes, so far totaling more than 21 crores that have been recuperated from her home shows the size of the trick.

Other than money and adornments, ED likewise found 20 cell phones at the home. An ED explanation said, "The hunt group is taking the help of bank authorities for the counting of money through cash counting machines. A sum of more than 20 cell phones has likewise been recuperated from the premises of Ms. Arpita Mukherjee, the reason and utilization of which are being found out. Further, various other implicating reports, records, subtleties of questionable organizations, electronic gadgets, unfamiliar money, and gold has additionally been recuperated from the different premises of the people connected to the trick."

Arpita Mukherjee is an entertainer by calling and has acted in a couple of Bengali, Odia, and Tamil motion pictures. Supposedly, she is a 'nearby helper' of Partha Chatterjee, and the pastor much of the time visits her home.

The focal organization has up to this point recuperated a sum of ₹21.20 crores in real money and gems worth ₹20 lakhs. Additionally, 22 cell phones and ₹54 lakh worth of unfamiliar cash were likewise held onto by the Enforcement Directorate.

According to reports, the focal organization has additionally seized the previous individual secretary of Partha Chatterjee. Distinguished as one Sukanta Acharya, he was gotten by ED from his Barrackpore home at 2 p.m. Before capturing him, an ED group had arrived at his home in the new Barrackpore yesterday and addressed him. The test group had left, however, returned at night and continued addressing. Acharya was cross-examined for something like 12 hours before he was arrested. Allegedly, ED additionally recuperated archives and electronic gadgets from his home.

Partha Chatterjee was the state instruction serve from 2014 to 2021, and he had supposedly gathered immense measures of cash from the enrollment of educators and other staff under the division. Right now he is the industries and commerce minister.

2019 video shows Mamata Banerjee commending Arpita Mukherjee

Satyaagrah had before detailed how the West Bengal Chief Minister was seen piling acclaim on the trick polluted entertainer in a video tracing back to September 28, 2019.

"Odishai kaaj koro. Valo more koro. gracious, korte? (Arpita has worked in Orissa. Keep doing awesome. You have worked in Odisha in the past?)," Mamta Banerjee was heard as saying.

"Odiya bolte paro valo more? Odisha te kaaj more Banglar meya… Agar baar o eschelo akhane… Bobby der okhane o jai (Can you speak Odiya? She is Bengal's little girl who works in Odisha..She had come before as well. She likewise visits Bobby [Firhad Hakim])," the West Bengal CM commented.

The video was taken shots at Naktala Udayan Sangha, the Durga Puja panel of TMC pioneer Partha Chatterjee. Apparently, Arpita Mukherjee was the substance of the limited-time crusade for the occasion.

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