TMC Minister Partha Chatterjee rushed to hospital after chest pain complain

Kolkata, Jul 25: Trinamool Congress Minister and former Education Minister of the state Partha Chatterjee was on Monday (Jul 25) flown to Bhubaneswar in an air ambulance for treatment. Chatterjee, was earlier today seen leaving the SSKM hospital in Kolkata in a wheelchair and taken in an ambulance to the airport.

 

 

 

 

Partha Chatterjee, who was arrested in connection with a teacher recruitment scam at government-sponsored and aided schools, was accompanied by a doctor from SSKM Hospital and his advocate, as per Calcutta HC's order. Chatterjee, who was arrested by the ED on Saturday, complained of heart pain just hours after the ED remand and demanded "proper medical facilities" if ED's custody is granted, according to Chatterjee's lawyer Somnath Mukherjee.

 

 

 

 

 

While ED prayed before the magistrate to allow Chatterjee to be taken to Command Hospital instead of the state-run SSKM. ED said that Chatterjee is a senior minister and his roots are deep in government hospitals, where he can be influential. However, the court ordered Chatterjee to be taken to SSKM Hospital.

 

The Court directed that the minister be produced before a special ED court in Kolkata through virtual mode at 4 pm on Monday. TMC, on the other hand, demanded a time-bound probe in the ED case against Chatterjee, asserting the party will not interfere politically if any leader has done anything wrong. ED also produced the senior TMC leader's associate Arpita Mukherjee before a court, which remanded her to one-day custody of the agency.