‘Lost cool’:Woman throws sandal at scam-hit ex-Bengal minister Partha Chatterjee

The woman who threw sandal at Partha Chatterjee said she came to get medicines for a relative but lost her cool on seeing him ‘being treated like a VIP’.

A woman hurled a sandal at former West Bengal minister Partha Chatterjee, who is in the custody of the Enforcement Directorate (ED) in connection with the cash-for-jobs scandal, while he was leaving a hospital in South 24 Parganas’s Joka area after a routine checkup on Tuesday afternoon.

The woman threw her sandal at Partha Chatterjee when he was taken by central paramilitary force personnel to a hospital for a routine check up. (ANIl)

Chatterjee had boarded the vehicle and was about to leave ESI hospital when the sandal hit the rear window which was rolled up, according to eyewitnesses.

The woman, identified as Shubhra Ghorui of Amtala in the district, later told reporters she had arrived to purchase medicines for a relative but lost her cool on seeing Chatterjee “being treated like a VIP”.

“How can a man who cheated thousands of poor people and made crores to buy property and gold be brought to hospital in an air-conditioned car? He should be dragged all the way by a rope tied around his neck. I am surprised you are asking me why I threw my sandal. I wish it had landed on his head,” she said.

“Should we greet him with a garland for what he has done to so many poor people? I wish I could throw both sandals at him…” she said.

Police personnel present at the spot did not press any charges against Ghorui since nobody was hurt in the incident.

Chatterjee was arrested on July 23 after 27 hours of interrogation in connection with alleged irregularities in recruitment of teaching and non-teaching staff in government schools.