The Enforcement Directorate has arrested West Bengal minister Partha Chatterjee in connection with its investigation into the teacher recruitment scam. Chatterjee, who was the state education minister when the alleged scam took place, was arrested after over 26 hours of grilling in connection with the probe. Currently the state industry minister, Chatterjee was taken to the ED's office at CGO Complex in Salt Lake area. The agency on Friday carried out simultaneous raids in the houses of former advisor of the West Bengal School Service Commission (SSC) Shanti Prasad Sinha, ex-president of the West Bengal Board of Secondary Education Kalyanmoy Ganguly and nine others. Arpita Mukherjee, a close aide of Partha Chatterjee has also been detained. ED recovered ₹21 crore in unaccounted cash from Mukherjee's residence in south Kolkata a day back. Watch this video for more details.
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