Partha Chatterjee will not be treated in Bengal, HC directs to take him to Bhubaneswar AIIMS

The Calcutta High Court on Sunday directed the Enforcement Directorate (ED) to take West Bengal minister Partha Chatterjee, arrested in connection with the teacher recruitment scam, to AIIMS Bhubaneswar in the early hours of Monday by an 'air ambulance'. The court directed that the minister be produced digitally before a special ED court in Kolkata at 4 pm on Monday. "The investigating agency is directed to take the accused to AIIMS, Bhubaneswar by 'air ambulance' in the morning of July 25, 2022," Justice Vivek Choudhary directed.

After hearing arguments on a revision petition filed by the ED challenging the trial court's order to send Chatterjee to the state-run SSKM Hospital after lawyers claimed that he was ill, Justice Choudhary directed that the AIIMS, Bhubaneswar administration directed that the accused Get medical examinations done by specialist doctors in Cardiology, Nephrology, Respiratory Medicine and Endocrinology.

A Kolkata court on Sunday sent Arpita Mukherjee, a close aide of Partha Chatterjee, to one-day ED custody. Mukherjee was arrested by the ED on Saturday. Earlier on Friday, the agency interrogated him for several hours at his house in south Kolkata, where cash and other valuables worth crores of rupees were recovered. Partha Chatterjee was arrested on Saturday 23 July. The arrest was made after 26 hours of interrogation. The matter is related to the teacher recruitment scam.