Apr 24, 2024, at 05:09 pm
Kolkata/New Delhi/IBNS: The West Bengal School Service Commission (WBSSC) will on Wednesday move the Supreme Court challenging the Calcutta High Court order that cancelled recruitment of almost 24,000 teaching and non-teaching staff in 2016, media reports said.
'Illegal, I challenge it': Mamata Banerjee on Calcutta HC cancelling 24,000 jobs in SSC scam probe
Apr 22, 2024, at 07:40 pm
Kolkata/IBNS: West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee has called the Calcutta High Court order cancelling 24,000 recruitments of teaching and non-teaching staff "illegal".
Apr 22, 2024, at 06:51 pm
Kolkata/IBNS: In a massive order, the Calcutta High Court on Monday cancelled recruitment of 24,000 teaching and non-teaching staff in government-sponsored and government-aided schools, dismissing the entire 2016 teacher recruitment panel, media reports said.
Bengal SSC scam: 'Done no wrong,' says actor Bonny Sengupta after fresh ED quizzing
Mar 15, 2023, at 05:31 am
Kolkata/IBNS: "I have done no wrong," said Bengali actor Bonny Sengupta after he was summoned for the second day by the Enforcement Directorate in connection with the West Bengal teacher recruitment scam on Tuesday.
Bengal SSC scam: Actor Bonny Sengupta appears before ED
Mar 14, 2023, at 05:58 pm
Kolkata/IBNS: As per the directive from the probe agency, Tollywood actor Bonny Sengupta reached the Enforcement Directorate (ED) office in Kolkata on Tuesday for quizzing in connection with the West Bengal teacher recruitment scam.
'Was unaware of this side of Partha Chatterjee': Firhad Hakim on Bengal SSC scam
Mar 14, 2023, at 05:17 pm
Kolkata/IBNS: West Bengal top minister and Trinamool Congress veteran Firhad Hakim on Tuesday said he was unable to recognise former state education minister Partha Chatterjee, who has been arrested in connection with the teacher recruitment scam.
Bengal SSC scam: Will actor Bonny Sengupta meet ED officials today?
Mar 14, 2023, at 04:29 pm
Kolkata/IBNS: Tollywood actor Bonny Sengupta has been asked by the Enforcement Directorate (ED) officials to appear before them on Tuesday in connection with the alleged irregularities in the teacher recruitment process of West Bengal.
Mar 02, 2023, at 05:13 am
Kolkata/IBNS/UNI: An investigation by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) into an alleged large-scale scam in the West Bengal education department has unearthed cash of Rs 50 lakh, gold worth 1.5 kg and lists of 1500 job seekers from the benami house of arrested West Bengal Central School Service Commission's former advisor Shanti Prasad Sinha.
Calcutta High Court picks CBI official DIG Shenvi to probe SSC scam
Nov 19, 2022, at 08:17 pm
Kolkata/UNI: The Calcutta High Court on Friday picked CBI official DIG Ashwin Shenvi to head the newly reconstituted CBI Special Investigation Team (SIT) to probe the alleged teachers recruitment scam in government-aided schools across West Bengal, court sources said on Saturday.
Sep 01, 2022, at 01:39 am
Kolkata/IBNS/UNI: Rejecting an appeal of conditional bail, a special court in the city on Wednesday further extended the judicial remand of former West Bengal education minister Partha Chatterjee and his close aide Arpita Mukherjee for two more weeks in connection with the government-aided schools' scam.
CBI arrests former SSC advisor Shanti Prasad Sinha, chairman Ashok Saha in Bengal
Aug 11, 2022, at 04:02 am
Kolkata/UNI: The Central Bureau Investigation (CBI) on Wednesday arrested former School Service Commission (SSC) advisor Shanti Prasad Sinha and former SSC chairman Ashok Saha in connection with the West Bengal teaching staff recruitment scam.
Aug 06, 2022, at 03:26 am
Kolkata/IBNS: Sacked Bengal Minister Partha Chatterjee's aide Arpita Mukherjee, arrested with him in the state's teacher recruitment scam, will be kept with no more than four co-prisoners, and food for her will first be tested.
SSC scam: Kolkata court sends Partha Chatterjee, Arpita Mukherjee to 14-day judicial custody
Aug 06, 2022, at 01:20 am
Kolkata/UNI: A Kolkata court on Friday remanded former West Bengal Minister Partha Chatterjee and his alleged aide Arpita Mukherjee, arrested in connection with the School Service Commission appointment scam and minting money, to 14-day judicial custody till Aug 18.
Partha nominee in Arpita's 31 LIC policies; duo's connection dates back to 2012, claims ED: Report
Aug 05, 2022, at 03:06 am
Kolkata: Former West Bengal Minister and Trinamool leader Partha Chatterjee is a nominee in his close aide Arpita Mukherjee's 31 life insurance policies, Enforcement Directorate (ED) has said, reported media.
SSC Scam: ED raids another apartment of ex-Bengal minister Partha Chatterjee's aide
Aug 04, 2022, at 09:41 pm
Kolkata: The Enforcement Directorate (ED) is raiding another apartment of Arpita Mukherjee, the aide of former West Bengal Minister and Trinamool heavyweight Partha Chatterjee, in connection with the teacher recruitment scam.
SSC Scam: Fresh ED remand for sacked Bengal minister Partha Chatterjee, aide Arpita Mukherjee
Aug 04, 2022, at 05:19 am
Kolkata/UNI: A city court on Wednesday extended by two days the Enforcement Directorate (ED) custody of former West Bengal minister Partha Chatterjee and his alleged aide Arpita Mukherjee, arrested in connection with the state school service commission (SSC) scam.
'Not my money': Sacked Bengal minister Partha Chatterjee on cash seized from aide's house
Aug 01, 2022, at 12:46 am
Kolkata: Jailed former Trinamool leader and Bengal minister Partha Chatterjee has claimed the heaps of cash and gold recovered from two homes of his aide, Arpita Mukherjee, do not belong to him, media reported.
Jul 30, 2022, at 12:06 am
Kolkata: Jailed former Bengal minister Partha Chatterjee's aide Arpita Mukherjee staged a dramatic protest, giving a tough time to security forces as they tried to take her for a court-mandated medical check-up to ESI Hospital in Kolkata's Joka.
Money laundering: BJP holds rally in Kolkata demanding Mamata Banerjee's resignation
Jul 29, 2022, at 04:06 am
Kolkata/UNI/IBNS: Calling for a "corruption-free" and "Trinamool Congress-free" West Bengal, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Thursday held a huge protest rally in Kolkata, demanding chief minister Mamata Banerjee's resignation and punishment of all those involved in the alleged School Service Commission (SSC) scam.
SSC Scam: After Kolkata's Tollygunge and Belgharia, ED raids Arpita Mukherjee's flat in Chinar Park
Jul 29, 2022, at 03:16 am
Kolkata: The Enforcement Directorate (ED) is reportedly raiding another apartment of sacked-Trinamool leader Partha Chatterjee's aide, Arpita Mukherjee, after the central probe agency recovered a fresh lot of cash and valuables from her Belgharia flat in a raid that lasted 18 hours, said media reports.
SSC Scam: Mamata Banerjee suspends Partha Chaterjee from TMC, removes from all party posts
Jul 29, 2022, at 12:31 am
Kolkata: Trinamool Congress chief Mamata Banerjee Thursday removed arrested leader Partha Chatterjee from all party posts while suspending him from the party.
Bengal teacher recruitment scam: Mamata sacks Partha Chatterjee from all ministries
Jul 28, 2022, at 10:24 pm
Kolkata: Trinamool Congress leader Partha Chatterjee has been sacked from all ministries following his arrest by the Enforcement Directorate (ED) in the teacher recruitment scam.
Jul 28, 2022, at 09:53 pm
Kolkata: After the fresh recovery of cash amounting to Rs 29 crore, gold jewellery and bars from West Bengal minister Partha Chatterjee's close aide Arpita Mukherjee's second residence, actor-politician Mithun Chakraborty has urged Chatterjee to reveal who is the real owner of the alleged ill-gotten money linked to state's teacher recruitment scam, media reported.
Jul 28, 2022, at 06:20 pm
Kolkata/IBNS: Trinamool Congress (TMC) national general secretary Abhishek Banerjee has called a meeting at 5 pm after clamour to oust arrested teacher recruitment scam accused West Bengal Minister Partha Chatterjee grew after a huge cash worth Rs. 50 crore was recovered from the heavyweight's aide Arpita Mukherjee's flats.
Jul 28, 2022, at 05:53 pm
Kolkata/IBNS: The Enforcement Directorate probing a teacher recruitment scam in West Bengal in its ongoing raids so far has recovered over Rs. 50 crore cash besides gold jewellery and bars from two flats of Arpita Mukherjee, an aide of now jailed state minister and Trinamool Congress (TMC) secretary general Partha Chatterjee.
More cash recovered from Partha Chatterjee aide Arpita Mukherjee's house
Jul 28, 2022, at 02:10 am
Kolkata/IBNS: Another stack of cash has been recovered from an apartment of Arpita Mukherjee-close aide of arrested Bengal Minister and Trinamool Congress leader Partha Chatterjee- days after the Enforcement Directorate found Rs. 21 crores from her house in Tollygunge.
Jul 27, 2022, at 01:35 am
Kolkata: The Enforcement Directorate (ED) has claimed to have learned explosive details related to the teacher recruitment scam from a black diary recovered from the house of Arpita Mukherjee, the close aide of West Bengal minister and Trinamool leader Partha Chatterjee, media reports said.
Jul 27, 2022, at 12:26 am
Kolkata/IBNS: Living up to its theme "Arambha" or "The Beginning" in the 2022 Durga Puja, Kolkata's Naktala Udayan Sangha is set to organise the four-day festival this year with a fresh start after its "honourary" member and West Bengal Minister Partha Chatterjee landed up in jail in the teacher recruitment scam that has triggered a political firestorm in the Trinamool Congress-ruled state.
SSC scam case: Partha Chatterjee brought back to Kolkata from Bhubaneswar
Jul 26, 2022, at 07:48 pm
Kolkata/UNI: West Bengal Industries minister and Trinamool Congress secretary general Partha Chatterjee was brought back to the city from Bhubaneswar Tuesday morning.
SSC scam: Bengal minister Partha Chatterjee, his aide Arpita Mukerjee sent to 10 days ED custody
Jul 26, 2022, at 08:44 am
Kolkata: An Enforcement Directorate (ED) special court in Kolkata Monday evening sent arrested Trinamool leader and Bengal minister Partha Chatterjee and his close associate Arpita Mukherjee to ED custody for 10 days.