Arpita Mukherjee, Key Figure in Bengal School Job Scandal, Admitted to Hospital
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Kolkata, Dec 5 (NationPress) Arpita Mukherjee, a key figure in the cash-for-school job scandal in West Bengal and a close associate of former state Education Minister and Trinamool Congress secretary general Partha Chatterjee, was admitted to a private hospital in Kolkata on Thursday.
Mukherjee had been released on bail last month after a special court under the Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA) granted her bail. This decision came while she was already on a five-day parole due to the passing of her mother.
She was admitted to the hospital in the morning after reporting a severe stomach infection.
To recap, Mukherjee was detained in July 2022 by officials from the Enforcement Directorate (ED) after a staggering amount of cash and gold, valued at Rs 50 crore, was seized from her two residences in the city. Partha Chatterjee was also taken into custody during the same operation.
While Mukherjee was released on bail last month, Chatterjee remains incarcerated at the Presidency Central Correctional Home in South Kolkata, as the Supreme Court reserved its decision on Chatterjee’s bail application on Wednesday.
Since her release last month, Mukherjee has been residing at her ancestral home in Belgharia, located on the northern outskirts of Kolkata, where her mother recently passed away.
Despite being granted bail, the special court imposed certain conditions, including the requirement for her to surrender her passport and a prohibition on leaving Kolkata until further notice.
Recently, the ED filed a new supplementary charge sheet in the school job case, adding 29 new individuals and corporate entities to the list. Among those named were a trust established in memory of Partha Chatterjee's late wife, along with various corporate entities linked to real estate, private education, and bicycle manufacturing.
The charge sheet also named S. Basu Roy & Company, the outsourced entity responsible for providing optical mark recognition (OMR) sheets for school job examinations, as well as Partha Chatterjee's son-in-law Kalyanmoy Bhattacharya.
