Kolkata: An Enforcement Directorate team on Saturday conducted a five-hour raid at former Bengal Education minister Partha Chatterjee’s residence in connection with the school jobs scam.
ED officials reached Chatterjee’s house in Naktala area around 10.45 am after Central Forces cordoned off the premises. The Central agency also questioned him, an ED official said.
The team, including a woman official, left the residence at 4:30 pm, but did not talk to the waiting media persons on the nearby road. Chatterjee did not come out of his residence to meet the media despite requests.
Chatterjee was released on bail on November 11, 2025, after spending over three years (39 months) in custody following his arrest by the
ED on July 23, 2022, in connection with the scam.
He had secured conditional bail from the Supreme Court in the CBI-probed case in August 2025 and subsequently in other related cases before being released from judicial custody.
The raid was necessitated as Chatterjee did not respond to three summons for questioning before the ED, after his release on bail, in connection with the recruitment scam of the West Bengal Central School Service Commission (SSC).
A second team of the agency conducted a simultaneous search at the Rajarhat office of another accused, Prasanna Kumar Roy, whom the
ED described as a middleman to the court in the multicrore job scandal.