KOLKATA: A purported “suggestion letter” from former Bengal minister Partha Chatterjee endorsing his “shut household good friend” Arpita Mukherjee’s want to undertake a toddler is a part of the Enforcement Directorate‘s 172-page first chargesheet within the jobs-for-cash case.
The company has introduced this as a part of the proof that it claims establishes a robust connection between the duo, arrested inside hours of one another on July 23, 5 months after Arpita filed an adoption plea.
Chatterjee had instructed ED officers that he wrote the February 22 letter in his then capability as a “public servant”, searching for to reaffirm that Arpita was simply one other acquaintance.
The ED’s chargesheet mentions that Chatterjee took Arpita together with him throughout a go to to Phuket in Thailand. He additionally paid for the journey bills of Snehamy Datta, one other accused within the case, the company stated. Chatterjee was in Thailand as a visitor of the Thailand HR Affiliation in 2014-15.
Whereas he denied making any such journey, Datta corroborated it throughout questioning. The ED chargesheet refers to a property in Thailand that the suspended Trinamool veteran, as soon as counted amongst CM Mamata Banerjee’s most trusted lieutenants, allegedly purchased with Arpita “on a 50:50 partnership foundation”.
Investigators have additionally come throughout 31 LIC insurance policies in Arpita’s identify, with a complete month-to-month premium of Rs 1.5 crore. Chatterjee used to pay the premium, based mostly on his financial institution statements, the ED stated.
The chargesheet additionally mentions Arpita’s sister Sangita Mukherjee, who was employed as a peon within the larger schooling division earlier than being appointed Chatterjee’s attendant in his workplace.
ED officers stated that they had bought maintain of transcripts of WhatsApp chats between Chatterjee and former West Bengal Board of Major Training chairman Manik Bhattacharya about allegedly unlawful appointments. This was after Chatterjee denied any data of such hirings.
In one of many purportedly incriminating chats discovered on Chatterjee’s cell phone, somebody despatched a message to him complaining that Bhattacharya had been demanding cash for the Nadia TET interview.
Bhattacharya visited Chatterjee’s residence in Kolkata’s Naktala on December 29, 2020, days after the message was despatched, the ED identified.
The company has introduced this as a part of the proof that it claims establishes a robust connection between the duo, arrested inside hours of one another on July 23, 5 months after Arpita filed an adoption plea.
Chatterjee had instructed ED officers that he wrote the February 22 letter in his then capability as a “public servant”, searching for to reaffirm that Arpita was simply one other acquaintance.
The ED’s chargesheet mentions that Chatterjee took Arpita together with him throughout a go to to Phuket in Thailand. He additionally paid for the journey bills of Snehamy Datta, one other accused within the case, the company stated. Chatterjee was in Thailand as a visitor of the Thailand HR Affiliation in 2014-15.
Whereas he denied making any such journey, Datta corroborated it throughout questioning. The ED chargesheet refers to a property in Thailand that the suspended Trinamool veteran, as soon as counted amongst CM Mamata Banerjee’s most trusted lieutenants, allegedly purchased with Arpita “on a 50:50 partnership foundation”.
Investigators have additionally come throughout 31 LIC insurance policies in Arpita’s identify, with a complete month-to-month premium of Rs 1.5 crore. Chatterjee used to pay the premium, based mostly on his financial institution statements, the ED stated.
The chargesheet additionally mentions Arpita’s sister Sangita Mukherjee, who was employed as a peon within the larger schooling division earlier than being appointed Chatterjee’s attendant in his workplace.
ED officers stated that they had bought maintain of transcripts of WhatsApp chats between Chatterjee and former West Bengal Board of Major Training chairman Manik Bhattacharya about allegedly unlawful appointments. This was after Chatterjee denied any data of such hirings.
In one of many purportedly incriminating chats discovered on Chatterjee’s cell phone, somebody despatched a message to him complaining that Bhattacharya had been demanding cash for the Nadia TET interview.
Bhattacharya visited Chatterjee’s residence in Kolkata’s Naktala on December 29, 2020, days after the message was despatched, the ED identified.
