Faculty job case: CBI will get name data establishing Partha Chatterjee’s involvement
The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) in its third and final supplementary cost sheet on the cash-for-school job case in West Bengal filed at a particular court docket in Kolkata has supplied particulars of how the decision particulars of the cell phone of a intermediary have established the involvement of the previous state training minister and Trinamool Congress secretary basic Partha Chatterjee within the alleged rip-off.
Sources mentioned the CBI within the cost sheet has additionally talked about a checking account within the identify of the mentioned intermediary, Santu Gangopadhyay, which was reportedly used for the switch of proceeds of the alleged rip-off.
A complete of Rs 3.08 crore was the final stability of the mentioned checking account held with the department of a non-public financial institution situated at Sakuntala Park space within the southern outskirts of Kolkata.
Sources mentioned that Gangopadhyay, an especially shut confidant of Chatterjee and an erstwhile small-time actual property promoter, witnessed a sudden spurt in monetary fortune since 2014, the yr when Chatterjee grew to become the state training minister.
Since that time of time, Gangopadhyay’s actual property enterprise, sources added, grew to become a significant medium of diversion of the ill-gotten proceeds within the faculty job case with the proceeds being proven as investments in the actual property enterprise.
Earlier this month, CBI had additionally obtained permission from the workplace of West Bengal governor C.V. Ananda Bose to file the cost sheet towards Chatterjee, a course of which is necessary for a court docket to formally settle for the cost sheet filed towards any member of the state Meeting.
With the occasion of getting the nod for submitting the cost sheet towards Chatterjee, docks are cleared to start the method of framing fees towards him within the CBI-registered case of the alleged faculty job rip-off.
Chatterjee was first arrested in July 2022 by the Enforcement Directorate (ED) after enormous money and gold have been recovered from the dual residences of his shut aide Arpita Mukherjee. Since then, Chatterjee has been behind bars at Presidency Central Correctional Residence in South Kolkata, although Mukherjee was launched on conditional bail lately.
Just lately, CBI had additionally proven him arrested in the identical faculty job case thus making his launch from jail much more unsure.
In the meantime, the whole confiscation quantity by the Enforcement Directorate has reached Rs 239.26 crore up to now within the cash-for-school-job case in West Bengal.
