NEW DELHI, July 26: The Enforcement Directorate (ED) is claimed to have found a “black diary” at the residence of Arpita Mukherjee, a close aide of the West Bengal Commerce and Industries minister Partha Chatterjee’s during the recent raid. The diary belongs to the Department of Higher Education and School Education, Government of West Bengal.
According to ED sources, 40 pages of the diary have a lot written in them that could reveal many secrets related to the teacher recruitment scam. The TMC leader Partha Chatterjee was arrested by the ED on July 23 morning in connection with its investigation into the alleged teacher recruitment scam.
The senior TMC leader was arrested under provisions of the Prevention of Money Laundering (PMLA) Act after the ED recovered Rs 20 crore in cash from the house of Arpita Mukherjee. Soon after his arrest Arpita Mukherjee was also arrested by the ED a day after the cash was recovered from her Kolkata residence.
(Manas Dasgupta)
