KOLCUTTA: A Prevention Of Money-Laundering Act (PLMA) court has allowed the production of former West Bengal minister Partha Chatterjee and his alleged close aide Arpita Mukherjee, both under arrest by the ED in connection with the school jobs scam, through the virtual mode.

The duo, who are in judicial remand, are scheduled to be produced before the PMLA court on August 31. A prayer was made before the judge in charge by the superintendent of Presidency Correctional Home to allow the authorities to produce Chatterjee before the PMLA court through the virtual mode instead of physical production.

The judge in charge of the special court on Monday ordered that both Chatterjee and Mukherjee be produced through the virtual mode on August 31 from the correctional homes they are lodged in. While the former minister is in judicial remand at Presidency Correctional Home, his alleged close associate Arpita Mukherjee is at Women Correctional Home in Alipur here.

Chatterjee and Mukherjee were detained by the Enforcement Directorate (ED) in July in connection with its probe into alleged money trail in the School Service Commission (SSC) teacher appointment scam. Meanwhile, the CBI on Tuesday nabbed seven more persons for their alleged involvement in the Birbhum killings in West Bengal, a senior official said. Ten people, including six women and two children, were burnt to death after assailants hurled petrol bombs at several houses in Bogtui on March 21.       

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