Fly Partha to AIIMS-Bhubaneswar for health scan, Calcutta high court tells Enforcement Directorate

KOLKATA: The Calcutta High Court on Sunday directed the ED, investigating the money trail in the alleged school appointment irregularities scam, to fly out senior Bengal minister Partha Chatterjee to AIIMS, Bhubaneswar in an air ambulance early on Monday, where doctors specializing in cardiology, nephrology, respiratory medicine and endocrinology are to examine him and report by 3pm in order to allow a special PMLA court in Kolkata to hear the case by 4pm.
Chatterjee has ordered to appear for the hearing online. The HC also set aside the portion of the Kolkata court's order, which allowed Chatterjee's lawyer to be present throughout his questioning by ED.
Chatterjee's "close associate" Arpita Mukherjee, from whose home ED counsels claimed "money was coming out like (treasure from) Ali Baba's iron chest", was remanded in a day's ED custody after production in acting chief metropolitan magistrate Namrata Singh's court. The actor-model was arrested on Saturday afternoon, 14 hours after Chatterjee's arrest at 2.10am on Saturday. The minister had been taken to the state-run SSKM Hospital on Saturday itself after he developed "chest pain".
The HC remarked that in view of the fact that the accused was the "seniormost" cabinet minister in Bengal, "having immense power and position, it would not be impossible for the accused with the aid of other political executives to take shelter under the garb of serious illness and medical treatment to evade interrogation."
The court said that Chatterjee had to be taken to the city airport in an SSKM ambulance, accompanied by an SSKM doctor and a lawyer.