Trinamool Congress MLA Manik Bhattacharya has been arrested after being questioned overnight by the Enforcement Directorate in the alleged teachers' recruitment scam in West Bengal. He is the second Trinamool leader to be arrested in the scam. The first was former Bengal minister Partha Chatterjee, who was arrested after piles of cash were seized from the properties linked to him and his close aide Arpita Mukherjee.
The Enforcement Directorate, which is investigating the charges of money laundering in the case, claims, the sacked minister's WhatsApp chat history had a conversation about Mr Bhattacharya's involvement in collecting bribes.
Mr Bhattacharya will be taken for a medical test and produced in a court today.
