SSC scam: Why Arpita Mukherjee’s advocate did not seek bail today?

India

oi-Prakash KL

New
Delhi,
Aug
05:
Arpita
Mukherjee’s
legal
counsel
on
Friday
did
not
seek
bail
in
connection
with
the
School
Service
Commission
(SSC)
recruitment
scam
as
a
session
court
in
Kolkata
sent
her
along
with
former
West
Bengal
Minister
Partha
Chatterjee
to
14-day
judicial
custody.

Her
advocate
also
urged
the
judiciary
that
she
should
be
not
kept
with
more
than
four
prisoners.
“There’s
a
threat
to
her
life.
We
want
a
division
1
prisoner
category
for
her.
Her
food
and
water
need
to
be
tested
first
and
then
should
be
given.
ED
advocate
also
supported
that
there’s
a
threat
to
her
security
as
more
than
4
prisoners
can’t
be
kept,”
ANI
quoted
him
as
saying
in
the
court.

The
ED
to
admitted
that
there
was
a
life
threat
to
her
and
should
not
be
kept
with
more
than
four
prisoners
in
general.

The
Enforcement
Director
(ED)
had
prayed
for
14
days’ judicial
remand
of
Partha
Chatterjee
and
his
associate
Arpita
Mukherjee
before
a
special
PMLA
court
in
connection
with
its
probe
into
the
money
trail
in
the
school
recruitment
scam.

The
ED
counsel
also
prayed
for
the
court’s
permission
to
interrogate
the
two
accused
in
the
correctional
home
over
new
revelations
in
the
case.
The
Prevention
of
Money
Laundering
Act
(PMLA)
special
court
judge,
Jibon
Kumar
Sadhu
reserved
his
order
after
hearing
all
the
parties
in
the
case,
PTI
reported.

However,
the
court
rejected
Partha’s
bail
plea
and
sent
them
to
14-day
judicial
custody.
“No
one
has
come
out
and
said
that
he
had
asked
for
a
bribe,
neither
in
the
CBI
case
nor
in
ED.
Can
they
show
any
witness
that
he
has
asked
for
a
bribe?
Partha
Chatterjee
is
not
connected
with
the
crime
and
CBI
charged
allegation
is
not
appropriate,” Partha
Chatterjee’s
advocate
said.

“In
ED
Case
on
22
July,
when
his
house
was
raided
nothing
has
been
recovered.
If
you
try
to
ask
a
man
who
is
not
involved
in
the
crime,
he
will
obviously
be
non-cooperative,”
he
added.

Chatterjee
and
Mukherjee
have
been
in
ED
remand
since
their
arrest
on
July
23
in
connection
with
the
agency’s
investigation
into
the
alleged
money
trail
involved
in
illegal
appointments
of
teaching
and
non-teaching
staff
in
West
Bengal
government-sponsored
and
aided
schools.

The
ED
has
claimed
to
have
recovered
Rs
49.8
crore
in
cash,
a
huge
quantity
of
jewellery
and
gold
bars
from
flats
owned
by
Mukherjee,
besides
documents
of
properties
and
of
a
company
joint
held
by
the
two
accused.