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  • School jobs rip-off: CBI raids West Bengal varsity Vice-Chancellor’s workplace 

    By PTI

    KOLKATA: The Central Bureau of Investigation on Wednesday raided the workplace of North Bengal University (NBU) Vice-Chancellor Subires Bhattacharyya in Siliguri in reference to its probe into the varsity recruitment rip-off, and sealed his house in Kolkata.

    Bhattacharyya’s title figured within the report of a committee shaped by the Calcutta High Court, that acknowledged that unlawful appointments have been made, on suggestions of the School Service Commission (SSC), in institutes run or aided by the West Bengal authorities previously few years.

    Bhattacharyya was the SSC chairman between 2014 and 2018.

    A 12-member CBI staff raided the NBU vice-chancellor’s workplace in Siliguri, the biggest city within the northern a part of the state.

    “We have conducted raids and seized some documents and confiscated his mobile phone,” a CBI official mentioned. Another staff sealed Bhattacharyya’s house in Bansdroni space of Kolkata. He now lives in Siliguri. Attempts to contact the NBU vice-chancellor failed.

    The report submitted to the excessive courtroom by Justice (retd) R Okay Bag-headed committee mentioned {that a} five-member panel shaped in 2019 by the Education Department, when senior Trinamool Congress chief Partha Chatterjee held the portfolio, for monitoring recruitments of instructing and non-teaching workers didn’t have any authorized validity.

    The central investigating company on August 10 arrested former SSC adviser Dr Shanti Prasad Sinha and its ex-secretary Ashok Kumar Saha, who have been a part of the panel.

    The then training minister Partha Chatterjee and his alleged shut affiliate Arpita Mukherjee have been earlier arrested by the Enforcement Department (ED) which is monitoring the cash path within the rip-off.

    KOLKATA: The Central Bureau of Investigation on Wednesday raided the workplace of North Bengal University (NBU) Vice-Chancellor Subires Bhattacharyya in Siliguri in reference to its probe into the varsity recruitment rip-off, and sealed his house in Kolkata.

    Bhattacharyya’s title figured within the report of a committee shaped by the Calcutta High Court, that acknowledged that unlawful appointments have been made, on suggestions of the School Service Commission (SSC), in institutes run or aided by the West Bengal authorities previously few years.

    Bhattacharyya was the SSC chairman between 2014 and 2018.

    A 12-member CBI staff raided the NBU vice-chancellor’s workplace in Siliguri, the biggest city within the northern a part of the state.

    “We have conducted raids and seized some documents and confiscated his mobile phone,” a CBI official mentioned. Another staff sealed Bhattacharyya’s house in Bansdroni space of Kolkata. He now lives in Siliguri. Attempts to contact the NBU vice-chancellor failed.

    The report submitted to the excessive courtroom by Justice (retd) R Okay Bag-headed committee mentioned {that a} five-member panel shaped in 2019 by the Education Department, when senior Trinamool Congress chief Partha Chatterjee held the portfolio, for monitoring recruitments of instructing and non-teaching workers didn’t have any authorized validity.

    The central investigating company on August 10 arrested former SSC adviser Dr Shanti Prasad Sinha and its ex-secretary Ashok Kumar Saha, who have been a part of the panel.

    The then training minister Partha Chatterjee and his alleged shut affiliate Arpita Mukherjee have been earlier arrested by the Enforcement Department (ED) which is monitoring the cash path within the rip-off.

  • SSC recruitment rip-off: After Bengal minister’s interrogation, petitioner transfer HC

    By Express News Service

    KOLKATA: Shortly after CBI interrogated Trinamool Congress’s secretary common and former schooling minister Partha Chatterjee for 4 hours in reference to the alleged irregularities in recruitment of academics and non-teaching staffs within the state-run colleges by the School Service Commission (SSC), the Kolkata High Court on Wednesday determined to open a late evening session after petitioners sought safety of evidences by the CRPF which they imagine to be essential.

    The petitioners stated the evidences are vital because it satisfied the excessive courtroom to interact the CBI to conduct a probe giving liberty the central company to interrogate the TMC heavyweight. They additionally stated of their petition that the evidences must be protected by the CRPF as there may be makes an attempt to tamper it.

    Chatterjee turned up on the CBI workplace shortly after the division bench upheld the single-bench choose’s order asking CBI to probe into the irregularities.

    Though Chatterjee moved a division bench on Wednesday afternoon however his petition was not entertained.

    Four members of the advice committee, which was shaped by Chatterjee to facilitate the alleged irregularities.

    On April 12 this 12 months, Justice Gangopadhyay had ordered Chatterjee to face the CBI probe on the identical day however a division bench had put a keep on it.

    “The single bench mentioned in its order gave liberty to the CBI to arrest Chatterjee, if needed,” stated advocate Sudipta Sengupta.

    Upholding the earlier order, by which a CBI probe was ordered within the elleged recruitment rip-off, the division bench comprising Justice Subrata Talukdar and Ananda Kumar Mukherjee stated on Wednesday that there was no infirmity within the orders of the only bench. The division bench stated in its order that the rip-off and the cash path concerned could be investigated based on the orders of the only bench.

    Earlier the excessive courtroom had arrange a committee headed by retired HC justice Ranjit Kumar Bag to probe into the alleged irregularities. The committee discovered huge discrepancies and really helpful felony proceedings together with disciplinary proceedings some former officers of the SSC.

    The committee really helpful felony proceedings towards 4 former SSC officers and the incumbent president of the West Bengal Board of Secondary Education. It additionally sought disciplinary proceedings towards six different former senior SSC officers. 

    Welcoming the courtroom’s order, BJP’s state president Sukanta Majumdar alleged the federal government and its ministers are shameless. ‘’We know there was big corruption. If the CBI begins investigation, your complete unlawful dealer floor,’’ he stated.

    “This is a court matter and the issue is subjudice. If anyone did anything wrong, the party will not take responsibility,” stated TMC spokesperson Kunal Ghosh.

    Kolkata High Court ordered nobody could be allowed to enter SSC workplace until 1 pm because the CRPF will guard the institution.The order in response to petition to guard paperwork associated to irregularities in recruitment in colleges by SSC.

  • Calcutta HC upholds single bench orders of CBI probe into ‘unlawful’ appointments in aided faculties

    By PTI

    KOLKATA: A division bench of the Calcutta High Court on Wednesday upheld orders of a single bench that directed CBI to inquire into alleged unlawful appointments given by the West Bengal Board of Secondary Education on suggestions by the School Service Commission (SSC).

    Immediately after the division bench order, a single bench of Justice Abhijit Gangopadhyay directed state minister Partha Chatterjee to look earlier than the Central Bureau of Investigation at its workplace right here earlier than 6pm of Wednesday in reference to the SSC appointments rip-off.

    The decide mentioned that he expects Chatterjee to step down as minister within the curiosity of justice. Terming “irregularities” in recommending appointments of educating and non-teaching employees by SSC as a “public scam”, the division bench, comprising justices Subrata Talukder and AK Mukherjee, mentioned that the one bench of Justice Gangopadhyay was not fallacious in ordering a probe into the alleged cash path concerned.

    The division bench mentioned the orders of the one bench require no intervention.

    Holding {that a} five-member committee to supervise the appointment course of for a 2016 panel for recruitment of academics for lessons 9 and 10 and group C and D employees in government-aided faculties was unlawful, the one bench had ordered then state schooling minister to look earlier than the CBI.

    Chatterjee was the state schooling minister when the alleged appointments had been made. He is now the trade, commerce and parliamentary affairs minister of the Mamata Banerjee cabinet.

    Earlier, the minister was directed by Justice Gangopadhyay to look earlier than the Central Bureau of Investigation at its workplace in Nizam Palace right here on April 12, however he obtained a keep from a division bench on the order.

    Seven orders had been handed by the one bench directing CBI to investigate into the alleged irregularities within the appointments of educating and non-teaching employees. Of these, one was in group C, two in group D appointments and 4 in academics’ recruitment for lessons 9 and 10.

    All these orders had earlier been stayed by the division bench on a sequence of appeals.

    Passing judgment on the appeals, the division bench accepted suggestions of Justice RK Bag committee, instituted by the courtroom earlie calling for prosecution of the then senior officers related to the rip-off.