Kolkata

The Enforcement Directorate (ED) has recovered huge amount of cash and several mobile phones from the house of a close aide of West Bengal Commerce and Industries Minister Partha Chatterjee.

The ED raided the house of Chatterjee’s close aide Arpita Mukherjee in connection with irregularities in teachers’ recruitment in the West Bengal School Service Commission (WBSSC) and West Bengal Board of Primary Education (WBBPE).

Partha Chatterjee is also the general secretary of the Trinamool Congress Party.

The cash seized from the residence of Arpita Mukherjee amounts to around Rs 20 crore.

Along with the cash the ED sleuths also recovered 20 mobile phones from Mukherjee’s posh residence at the Diamond City complex in Tollygunge.

The officials believe that these mobile phones will provide crucial links to the teachers' recruitment scam in WBSSC and WBBPE.

The ED sleuths called some bank officials for counting purposes who arrived at Mukherjee's residence with currency counting machines.

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ED officials are currently grilling Mukherjee to unearth the source of the cash as well the purpose for which so many mobile phones were used.