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WBSSC Scam: Rs 29 Crore Cash Recovered From Arpita Mukherjee's Second House After ED's 18-Hr Raid

The counting continued until 4 a.m. on Thursday. According to ANI, the total cash collected from her premises currently stands at over 49 crore.

Another 29 crore in cash was seized from Arpita Mukherjee's Belghoria residence in North 24-Parganas, West Bengal, after the recent searches conducted by Enforcement Directorate (ED) authorities in connection with the multicore SSC teacher recruitment scam, news agency ANI reported.

The counting continued until 4 a.m. on Thursday. According to ANI, the total cash collected from her premises currently stands at over 49 crore.

Photos provided by the news agency ANI showed ED officers loading the vehicle with about ten trunks laden with cash and jewellery taken from Mukherjee's apartment. 

The ED raided Arpita Mukherjee's Belghoria residence for 18 hours on Wednesday, until this morning.

After questioning her, two flats in Belghoria were raided earlier on Wednesday. Money and gold worth around 20 crore were discovered in one. According to reports, Arpita Mukherjee stated that Partha Chatterjee exploited her home as a "little bank."

Mukherjee is a close aide of Trinamool Congress lawmaker and Bengal minister Partha Chatterjee, who was detained by ED in the multi-crore money laundering case.

According to ED authorities, Mukherjee has been "cooperative throughout the probe," but the former Bengal education minister has been "uncooperative."

The investigating agency also discovered two journals from Mukherjee's house and stated that coded entries in a black executive diary and one pocket diary might provide vital clues to the WBSSC money trail.

Both journals contain multiple coded entries that they think relate to the origins of the earnings from the multi-billion dollar West Bengal School Service Commission (WBSSC) recruitment irregularities scheme.

In conjunction with its inquiry, the ED detained Chatterjee, who is also the TMC secretary general, on Saturday.

(With ANI Inputs)

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