ED arrests Abhishek Banerjee’s shut aide Sujoy Krishna Bhadra in coach’s recruitment rip-off, Banerjee’s mother is a Director in Bhadra’s company: Details
On Tuesday, May 31, the Enforcement Directorate (ED) arrested Sujoy Krishna Bhadra, a Kolkata-based businessman and an in depth aide of Trinamool Congress chief Abhishek Banerjee (nephew of Mamata Banerjee), following a 12-hour-long questioning in reference to the lecturers’ recruitment rip-off in West Bengal.
According to ED authorities, Bhadra, who’s popularly known as ‘Kalighat-er Kaku’ (Kalighat’s uncle) was arrested because of he refused to cooperate with investigating officers and dodged their questions.
“He did not cooperate with our officers during today’s questioning. We tried a lot to get answers to some relevant questions connected to the jobs scam,” an ED official acknowledged.
ED has claimed to have uncovered his connections to some corporations and suspected these organisations had been used to launder crores of money. Moreover, all through earlier raids on his residence, ED authorities recovered paperwork. His residence in Behala was raided by ED on May 20.
He had testified sooner than the CBI on March 15 regarding his alleged participation in wrongful appointments made in quite a few state-run and state-aided institutions inside the state.
According to an Indian Express report, “Abhishek Banerjee’s mother, Lata Banerjee is a director in a firm run in the name of Bhadra, who claims to be an employee in Banerjee’s office.”
Abhishek Banerjee is claimed to be a affiliate inside the agency Leaps & Bounds Private Limited, which manufactures packaged mineral ingesting water.
Taking to Twitter BJP MLA and Leader of Opposition (LoP) inside the West Bengal state assembly reacted to Sujoy Krishna Bhadra’s arrest saying that “No one will be spared. The high and mighty will go to jail. Time is ticking.”
“The long arm of law is finally reaching towards the masterminds & the biggest beneficiaries. No one will be spared. The high and mighty will go to jail. Time is ticking,” Adhikari tweeted. He moreover shared photos claiming Bhadra’s alleged hyperlinks with TMC’s Abhishek Banerjee.
Sujay Krishna Bhadra aka “Kalighat-er Kaku” Arrested.
The prolonged arm of the Law is lastly reaching within the course of the masterminds & the biggest beneficiaries.
NO ONE WILL BE SPARED. THE HIGH & MIGHTY WILL GO TO JAIL.
TIME IS TICKING…
Know the Associates of “Kalighat-er Kaku”:- pic.twitter.com/MDUtpKe1CU
— Suvendu Adhikari • শুভেন্দু অধিকারী (@SuvenduWB) May 30, 2023
The Trinamool Congress did not reply to the arrest nonetheless speculated that it was completed to shift consideration away from the one Congress MLA, Bayron Biswas turning into a member of the TMC.
“Only one Congress MLA, Bayron Biswas, joined the TMC yesterday.” The data shocked the opposition coalition of the BJP, CPI(M), and Congress. “Perhaps this arrest was made to divert attention from that narrative,” acknowledged TMC spokesperson Kunal Ghosh.
“This is so funny that they are finding a link between Bayron Biswas and the ED probe,” claimed Lok Sabha MP and West Bengal Congress president Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury. The TMC is a corrupt get collectively. Biswas is technically nonetheless a Congress MLA.”
Sujan Chakraborty, chief of the CPI(M), remarked, “I am surprised that if an employee of (Banerjee) can own three companies and have crores of rupees, I wonder how much property and money his employers have.”
So far, the ED has arrested West Bengal’s former education minister Partha Chatterjee, and quite a few different others for his or her suspected place inside the multi-crore rip-off.
In relation to the investigation, the CBI has moreover arrested TMC MLAs Jiban Krishna Saha and former West Bengal Board of Primary Education president Manik Bhattacharya.
What is the Bengal Teacher SSC recruitment rip-off?
The West Bengal Teacher’s recruitment rip-off, additional commonly known as the SSC rip-off, appears to be into the recruitment course of carried out by the use of the State Level Selection Test (SLT) carried out by SSC from 2014 to 2016.
The West Bengal School Service Commission (SSC) launched in 2014 that lecturers will be employed at state-run colleges in West Bengal by the use of the State Level Selection Test (SLST), which is when the alleged rip-off first surfaced. In 2016, the hiring course of obtained underway. At that time, Partha Chatterjee was the Minister-in-Charge of the West Bengal Department of Higher Education and School Education. Nevertheless, numerous complaints had been submitted to the Calcutta High Court citing irregularities inside the hiring course of.
The petitioners alleged that many examinees who obtained lesser marks ranked extreme on the benefit itemizing. Several claims moreover surfaced in regards to the receipt of appointment letters by some candidates who weren’t even on the benefit itemizing.
