Arpita Mukherjee, a close aide of West Bengal minister Partha Chatterjee, has been in the limelight since Rs 20 crore in cash was recovered from her house last week. The two were arrested a day later, in connection with the school job scam in Bengal.
Arpita Mukherjee was active in the Bengali and Odia film industries between 2008 and 2014. She was also a model.
She comes from a middle-class family in Belghoria in the northern suburbs of Kolkata and was into modelling since her college days.
After her father's death, she was married to a businessman from Jhargram but not much is known about the marriage as she returned to Kolkata.
She acted in the film "Partner" alongside Jeet in 2008 and starred in "Mama Bhagne" alongside Bengali superstar Prosenjit Chatterjee in 2009.
In 2019 and 2020, Arpita Mukherjee was the face of the promotional campaigns of 'Naktala Udayan Sangha', one of the biggest Durga Puja committee in Kolkata. Partha Chatterjee was the chief patron of 'Naktala Udayan Sangha'.
