Jailed former Bengal Education Minister Partha Chatterjee was in for more trouble with a special court on Friday remanding him in CBI custody till September 21.
Chattopadhyay was earlier arrested by the Enforcement Directorate on corruption charges after the agency recovered a large number of documents from his house and Rs 50 crore from the apartments of his close associate Arpita Mukherjee.
The CBI has been investigating his role in the school level recruitment scam which has seen hundreds of jobs from teaching and non-teaching cadre getting sold to ineligible and unsuccessful candidates.
While Chatterjee a former number two in Mamata Banerjee Cabinet literally broke down before the judge saying he was not in the know of the fake recruitments as they were done by the School Services Commission an autonomous body.
He also told the court that he was old and ailing. The court however refused him bail and remanded in CBI custody where he is likely to be quizzed face-to-face with former chairman of West Bengal Board of Secondary Education Kalyanmoy Ganguli.
The former WBBSE chairman was on Thursday arrested by the CBI after questioning him for six hours.
Elsewhere at Birbhum the CBI officials questioned Sukanya Mondal the daughter of arrested TMC strongman and senior leader Anubrata Mondal who was last month arrested for his alleged role in cow smuggling.
The CBI officers questioned Sukanya after documents related to some more properties including some rice mills were recovered from various places, sources said.
Meanwhile in a related development the youth wing of State BJP on Friday gheraoed police stations through Bengal in protest against alleged police atrocities on saffron cadres during Tuesday's Nabanna march by the BJP.