Monday was an eventful day as far as the multicrore cash-for-school job case in West Bengal is concerned, as two parallel and crucial developments unfolded in connection with the matter at two courts here.
On one hand, a special court of the Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA) in Kolkata granted bail to Arpita Mukherjee, a prime accused in the case and a close associate of former West Bengal education minister and ex-Trinamool Congress secretary general Partha Chatterjee.
Last week, the same special court granted her a five-day parole because of the sudden demise of her mother.
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