{"id":10895,"date":"2026-04-11T07:29:43","date_gmt":"2026-04-11T07:29:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/d.sheep-mine.ts.net\/?p=10895"},"modified":"2026-04-11T07:29:43","modified_gmt":"2026-04-11T07:29:43","slug":"130186075-cms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/d.sheep-mine.ts.net\/?p=10895","title":{"rendered":"Partha Chatterjee: Teachers\u2019 recruitment scam: ED raids premises of ex-Bengal minister Partha Chatterjee, middleman | Kolkata News &#8211; The Times of India"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div data-articlebody=\"1\"><video-embed value=\"false\"\/><\/p>\n<div class=\"ihgno clearfix  \">\n<div class=\"e9jwa\">\n<div class=\"vdo_embedd\">\n<div class=\"GfdvZ\">\n<section class=\"_bIDB  clearfix id-r-component leadmedia undefined undefined  E9tg9 \" style=\"top:0px\">\n<div class=\"_bIDB\" data-ua-type=\"1\" onclick=\"stpPgtnAndPrvntDefault(event)\">\n<div class=\"ypVvZ\">\n<div class=\"WGttI\"><img src=\"https:\/\/static.toiimg.com\/thumb\/msid-130186161,imgsize-55852,width-400,height-225,resizemode-72\/according-to-officials-two-premises-were-searched-in-kolkata-including-chatterjees-residence-and-that-of-prasanna-kumar-roy-a-jailed-alleged-middleman-in-the-case.jpg\" alt=\"Teachers\u2019 recruitment scam: ED raids premises of ex-Bengal minister Partha Chatterjee, middleman\" decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\"\/><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>KOLKATA: The <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/topic\/enforcement-directorate\" styleobj=\"[object Object]\" class=\"\" commonstate=\"[object Object]\" frmappuse=\"1\">Enforcement Directorate<\/a> (ED) on Saturday conducted fresh searches against former West Bengal education minister Partha Chatterjee and others as part of a money laundering investigation linked to the alleged teachers\u2019 recruitment scam in the state, officials said.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"4\"\/>According to officials, two premises were searched in Kolkata, including Chatterjee\u2019s residence and that of Prasanna Kumar Roy, a jailed alleged middleman in the case.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"6\"\/>Chatterjee, a suspended Trinamool Congress (TMC) leader who once served as the party\u2019s secretary-general and a key strategist before its rise to power in 2011, has been under investigation in multiple recruitment-related cases.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"8\"\/><span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"10\"\/>Officials said the latest action was taken after Chatterjee failed to appear before the ED for questioning on three occasions in connection with the alleged scam involving recruitment of West Bengal Central School Service Commission (SSC) assistant teachers for Classes IX to XII.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"14\"\/>Chatterjee was arrested by the ED in July 2022 in the alleged primary teachers\u2019 recruitment scam. He was recently granted conditional bail by the Supreme Court and released from jail.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"16\"\/>The federal agency is probing multiple cases against him, including alleged irregularities in recruitment of primary teachers, SSC assistant teachers, and SSC Group C and D staff.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"18\"\/><span class=\"em\" data-ua-type=\"1\" onclick=\"stpPgtnAndPrvntDefault(event)\">(With agency inputs)<\/span><span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"20\"\/><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/city\/kolkata\/teachers-recruitment-scam-ed-raids-premises-of-ex-bengal-minister-partha-chatterjee-middleman\/articleshow\/130186075.cms\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KOLKATA: The Enforcement Directorate (ED) on Saturday conducted fresh searches against former West Bengal education&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10896,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[2144,6667,6666,6668,6669,26765,26762,26764,6670,26763],"class_list":["post-10895","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-enforcement-directorate","tag-kolkata-latest-news","tag-kolkata-news","tag-kolkata-news-live","tag-kolkata-news-today","tag-money-laundering-investigation","tag-partha-chatterjee","tag-teachers-recruitment-scam","tag-today-news-kolkata","tag-west-bengal-education-minister"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/d.sheep-mine.ts.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10895","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/d.sheep-mine.ts.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/d.sheep-mine.ts.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/d.sheep-mine.ts.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/d.sheep-mine.ts.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10895"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/d.sheep-mine.ts.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10895\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/d.sheep-mine.ts.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/10896"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/d.sheep-mine.ts.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10895"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/d.sheep-mine.ts.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10895"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/d.sheep-mine.ts.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10895"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}