Kolkata: The special PMLA court on Wednesday rejected bail plea ‘under any circumstances of former minister and suspended TMC leader Partha Chatterjee and remanded him to judicial custody till September 14.
Judge Jibon Kumar Sadhu of the special court also extended his close aide Arpita Mukherjee’s judicial custody for 14 days. However, Arpita’s lawyer didn’t appeal for bail.
The court also allowed the Enforcement Directorate (ED) to further interrogate both Chatterjee and his close aide in judicial custody.
According to Chatterjee’s lawyer, Sukanya Bhattacharya since Chatterjee is not ‘fit’ for which they had appealed for his bail said, “No one can say that Chatterjee is an influential person now. Since his health is not good for which we had appealed for bail under any circumstances."
It can be recalled that on earlier occasions, the court rejected Chatterjee’s bail prayers stating that the investigation of the WBSSC teachers’ recruitment scam is in earlier stages.
ED on July 23 arrested both Chatterjee and his close aide in connection with the ED’s probe into irregularities in the WBSSC recruitment scam.
A week after his arrest Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee relieved Chatterjee from all the posts from the party and also ministerial posts.
