Kolkata :The Enforcement Directorate (ED) is looking into a GST number linked to Arpita Mukherjee, arrested in connection with the probe into school recruitment scam, as there are chances that it was generated illegally to evade tax, a senior official of the central agency said on Monday. The official also said that another round of search was conducted at her flat in Belghoria area of the city on Monday evening by the ED, and CCTV footages were collected from its vicinity to find out who all visited the residence.
She used one GST number for running a beauty parlour business. There is another such number which is not linked to any business. We are trying to find out whether this one was generated in an illegal manner to evade tax, the official said. Nearly Rs 50 crore in cash along with gold was recovered from apartments linked to Arpita Mukherjee, one of Chatterjee's close aides, as per sleuths of central agency.
Chatterjee, who is at the centre of the school recruitment scam, has not been cooperating with the agency sleuths, primarily refraining from replying to most of their questions in connection with their probe. The suspended Trinamool Congress leader "remained silent most of the time" when asked about the conspiracy that he had referred to while speaking to journalists outside ESI Hospital at Joka where he was taken to for a medical check-up, the ED official said.