The Enforcement Directorate has summoned former state Education Minister Partha Chatterjee and his close aide Arpita Mukherjee in connection with the teachers’ recruitment corruption case. Chatterjee, who was arrested in July 2022 in the West Bengal School Service Commission teachers’ recruitment corruption case, along with Mukherjee, will face questioning after the state Assembly elections.
Investigations by both the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) and the Enforcement Directorate have revealed the involvement of Partha Chatterjee and Arpita Mukherjee in the SSC recruitment corruption case. As a result, both individuals are set to be interrogated in relation to the case. Their statements will also be recorded, although it remains uncertain whether they will be questioned together or separately.
Partha Chatterjee, the former state education minister, was arrested by the Enforcement Directorate for his alleged role in the multi-crore SSC teacher recruitment scam. Following his arrest, a significant amount of cash was discovered at the residence of his close associate Arpita Mukherjee. Despite the bail granted to Mukherjee in 2024, Chatterjee faced delays in his release due to legal procedures, eventually being freed from judicial custody on November 11, 2025.
After his arrest in 2022, Partha Chatterjee faced severe consequences within the Trinamool Congress, losing all ministerial and organizational roles, having his party membership suspended indefinitely, and witnessing the abolition of the party’s Secretary General position previously held by him.
