The Supreme Court on Friday granted conditional future bail to former West Bengal minister Partha Chatterjee in a money laundering case related to the cash-for-job scam.


A bench of Justices Surya Kant and Ujjal Bhuyan said Chatterjee will be released on February 1, 2025, subject to framing of charges by the court before the winter holidays and questioning of vulnerable witnesses in the second and third week of January 2025. The top court said after his release, Chatterjee will not hold public office but can continue as MLA.


The court said that a suspect cannot be held indefinitely and therefore a balance must be struck between the rights of the suspect and the victims. On December 4, the High Court had reserved its judgment on his bail plea and told him: “Prima facie, you are a corrupt person. Millions of rupees have been recovered from your premises.”


The Supreme Court in October issued a notice to the Enforcement Directorate on Chatterjee’s appeal against an April 30 order of the Calcutta High Court denying him bail on the grounds that there was a prima facie case under the PMLA case was filed against him.


Chatterjee was arrested in connection with the alleged irregularities in the recruitment of teaching and non-teaching staff in government-sponsored and aided primary schools of West Bengal. The politician and his alleged close aide Arpita Mukherjee were arrested by the ED in connection with their probe into the money trail in the alleged illegal recruitments.


The ED claimed to have recovered Rs 49.80 crore in cash apart from jewellery, gold bars from flats owned by Mukherjee, besides documents of properties and a joint holding company.



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