Partha Chatterjee
SSC scam: Bengal minister Partha Chatterjee, his aide Arpita Mukerjee sent to 10 days ED custody
Kolkata: An Enforcement Directorate (ED) special court in Kolkata Monday evening sent arrested Trinamool leader and Bengal minister Partha Chatterjee and his close associate Arpita Mukherjee to ED custody for 10 days.
They will be produced before the same court on August 3, sources said.
The court has also directed the ED to conduct medical tests on Partha and Arpita every 48 hours.
Earlier, the central probe agency had sought 14 days of custody alleging that Chatterjee was feigning illness.
Further, Partha will be in Bhubaneswar tonight.
He will be taken back to Kolkata tomorrow, according to ED sources.
Earlier on Monday, a team of doctors at the AIIMS Bhubaneswar, who examined Partha Chatterjee on Monday, found no serious diseases and advised him to get discharged.
Chatterjee was flown to Bhubaneswar from Kolkata in an Air Ambulance on Monday and admitted in the I-10 cabin of a private ward of the AIIMS, Bhubaneswar.
The Calcutta High Court had permitted ED to take Partha Chatterjee to Bhubaneswar by air ambulance to AIIMS, Bhubaneswar on Monday for a health check-up.
Media reports citing ED sources said that preliminary investigation revealed Arpita Mukherjee had been operating at least 12 shell companies and documents supporting the existence of such companies were recovered from her apartment in south Kolkata.
On Monday she told the ED sleuths that the mountain of cash amounting to Rs 21 crore seized from her house belonged to Partha Chatterjee. During the interrogation, she revealed that the plan was to move the cash out of her house in two or three days but the sudden ED raid foiled the plans.
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