Arpita Mukherjee, once a close confidant of former West Bengal Education Minister Partha Chatterjee, has been denied bail by a special Prevention of Money Laundering Act court. This is in relation to the multi-crore school recruitment case, wherein her twin residences were found to have huge sums of cash and gold. The court extended her judicial custody until June 19, and stated that she cannot deny her responsibility in the matter. Despite Mukherjee’s claims that Chatterjee was the mastermind behind the scam, the court found evidence that she was directly involved and fully aware of the proceeds of the scam being stored in her properties. The judge deemed the central agencies’ documents against her to be serious and said that her bail prayer could not be granted on the grounds of being a woman.
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The article reports on Arpita Mukherjee and her involvement in a multi-crore school recruitment case. She was denied bail, and the court ruled that she was aware of the huge amounts of cash and gold being stored in her residences. Mukherjee had initially claimed that Partha Chatterjee was the mastermind behind the scam, but the court found evidence that she was directly involved.
