Major Setback For TMC, ED Arrests Partha Chatterjee Over Teacher Recruitment Scam | English News

West Bengal minister and Trinamool Congress secretary general Partha Chatterjee was arrested by the Enforcement Directorate (ED) on Saturday after being questioned for around 26 hours in connection with an alleged scam in recruitment of teachers in state-run schools.

Chatterjee, being taken to the ED's office, will be produced in court later in the day. ED officials, who grilled Chatterjee overnight in connection with the case, had started the interrogation at his residence at 8am on Friday.

Agency officials had recovered ₹20 crore in cash from one of the properties of Chatterjee's close associate Arpita Mukherjee in south Kolkata.

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