Partha Chatterjee, his aide Arpita Mukherjee kept in separate cells amid security concerns

Former West Bengal minister Partha Chatterjee and his aide Arpita Mukherjee are held underneath judicial custody in numerous jails with excessive safety, even because the Enforcement Directorate claimed to have seized extra paperwork associated to a money-laundering probe in opposition to them.

The company has traced a hyperlink between an organization, Ananta Texfab Pvt Ltd which has Mukherjee’s Belghoria residence as its registered handle, and the previous minister’s members of the family, in keeping with the observations made by a particular courtroom that rejected their bail purposes on Friday. The company had seized about Rs 27.90 crore from the identical residence final month.

Greater than 50 financial institution accounts are underneath the company’s scanner, and it’s in search of account statements which might be despatched for forensic audit, ED sources stated.

Mukherjee, on a 14-day judicial custody, has been saved in a separate cell within the ladies’s correctional house in Kolkata’s Alipur and Chatterjee in a cell within the high-profile part of the Presidency Correctional House, additionally in the identical locality.

She is saved individually in a cell on the particular courtroom’s path, following apprehensions raised by ED’s lead advocate and Mukherjee’s lawyer about her security.

Chatterjee, who was additionally despatched to judicial custody for 14 days on Friday, is now staying within the “most secure” cell within the excessive profile part of the Presidency Correctional House.

Different inmates within the jail embody American Centre assault mastermind Aftab Ansari, Sarada chit fund proprietor Sudipta Sen and Trinamool chief and former Maoist Chhatradhar Mahato.

In accordance with jail sources, Chatterjee repented selecting politics over company profession. After getting into the Presidency Correctional House on Friday night, the previous minister Chatterjee stated “at the present time would not have come if he did not depart his company job and entered into the politics”, stated one in every of them.

He’s preserving silent in his cell and avoiding speaking to others within the cell, the sources stated.

Sarada chief Sudipta Sen’s shut aide, Debjani Mukhopadhyay, was earlier lodged within the cell the place Mukherjee is at the moment housed.