Former West Bengal Education Minister Partha Chatterjee has been granted bail in the Group C recruitment corruption case by the special CBI court in Alipore.
The court allowed bail on a personal bond of ₹90,000 with conditions which include cooperation in the investigation and a bar on leaving Kolkata without permission.
Despite the relief, Chatterjee will not walk free yet. He remains behind bars due to the pending primary teacher recruitment corruption case, where the High Court has completed hearings but reserved its verdict. Until bail is granted in that matter, the former minister cannot be released.
Chatterjee, once a heavyweight in the ruling Trinamool Congress (TMC), was arrested on July 22, 2022, after the Enforcement Directorate (ED) recovered staggering amounts of cash during raids. Over ₹21.90 crore was seized from his close aide Arpita Mukherjee’s Tollygunge flat and another ₹27.90 crore from her Belgharia residence. Arpita was also arrested.
Since then, Chatterjee’s name has surfaced in multiple recruitment corruption cases — spanning Classes IX and X, Group C and Group D recruitments. “While he has secured bail in most of these, the primary teacher recruitment case remains the key hurdle to his release,” said lawyer Jayanta Narayan Chatterjee.
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