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  • Recruitment rip-off: CBI finds disparity between variations of Bengal minister, advisory panel members

    By PTI

    KOLKATA: CBI sleuths, throughout interrogation on the irregularities detected in class appointments of West Bengal, have discovered discrepancies within the variations offered by state minister Partha Chatterjee with that of members of an advisory committee that regarded into the recruitments, an official of the company mentioned on Friday.

    According to the official, the minister informed the CBI that he had little or no details about the advisory committee’s day-to-day functioning and virtually no management over it.

    The Bengal minister has been summoned once more by the company subsequent week, he mentioned Chatterjee, who’s presently holding the portfolios of Parliamentary Affairs, Industry and Commerce, was on Wednesday grilled for over three hours in reference to the irregularities, which had taken place throughout his tenure because the training minister.

    “Mr Chatterjee was also asked to specify his role as the education minister of the state during the interrogation. There are several discrepancies in the versions of the minister with that of members of the advisory committee. We have to get answers to these questions. We have summoned Chatterjee again next week,” the CBI official informed PTI on situation of anonymity.

    Sleuths of the central company are prone to query Chatterjee subsequent week on three factors — recruitment strategy of academics, proceedings of School Service Commission advisory committee and financial irregularities — he defined.

    Meanwhile, the probe company on Friday grilled minister of state for training, Paresh Adhikari, for 9 hours because the a part of the investigation into the recruitment rip-off.

    On Thursday, too, Adhikari, after a lot drama that had unfolded after he and his daughter went briefly lacking, appeared earlier than the company detectives for his questioning.

    The minister was “not cooperating” with the CBI sleuths, when requested him a number of questions on his daughter appointment to a state government-aided college, the official added.

    Notably, the Calcutta High Court, which has directed the CBI to inquire into the rip-off, on Friday dismissed Adhikari’s daughter from her job and requested her to return the wage she had drawn throughout her tenure as a trainer.

  • Amid SSC row, Bengal BJP chief claims occasion MLAs additionally took favours; writes to Amit Shah

    By PTI

    KOLKATA: Amid the continued scandal over faculty recruitments, a neighborhood BJP chief in West Bengal’s Nadia district has written to Union Home Minister Amit Shah complaining that two MLAs from the saffron occasion used their place to assist their daughters land jobs in a central government-run multi-specialty hospital within the district.

    In an electronic mail to Shah, Partha Chatterjee, a neighborhood BJP chief from Kalyani in Nadia district, complained that two BJP MLAs, one from Bankura and one other from Nadia district , misused their place in gaining favours for his or her daughters.

    PTI couldn’t independently confirm the authenticity of the declare.

    “I have written to Amit Shah Ji and have informed him how two MLAs have used their position to help their daughter get jobs at the hospital. These political leaders are fulfilling their personal agenda in the party by using their portfolios. The workers of the BJP, who are fighting against the TMC, are being deprived,” Chatterjee instructed a information channel.

    Reacting to his allegations, Niladri Sekhar Dana, an MLA from Bankura, who has been named within the letter, dubbed the allegations baseless and politically motivated.

    “The allegations are baseless and politically motivated. My daughter is working there as a contractual staff for a contractor hired by the hospital. It is not a government job but a temporary contractual job. My daughter has got the job on her merit. I have nothing to do with it,” Jana instructed the information channel.

    The TMC, which is going through assaults from the opposition over the CBI investigation within the SSC recruitment case, demanded that the central investigating company must also look into this criticism.

    “Why is the CBI not taking action now? The CBI should summon the BJP MLAs and their daughters and look into the complaint,” TMC state common secretary Kunal Ghosh mentioned.

    Reacting to Ghosh’s demand, BJP MP Saumitra Khan launched a vigorous protection.

    “Is being a daughter or a son of an MLA or MP a crime that he or she can’t even get a contractual job? There is a difference between the SSC scam and this contractual job,” he mentioned.

  • SSC rip-off: Trinamool, Opposition hit out at one another; job aspirant makes an attempt suicide

    By PTI

    KOLKATA: An School Selection Commission job aspirant who was amongst these taking part in an indication close to Mayo Road demanding jobs, tried to commit suicide by hanging herself from the department of a tree utilizing her dupatta on Thursday.

    The incident occurred after the scholars had been stopped from going to the Raj Bhawan to submit a deputation.

    The aspirant was rushed to a close-by hospital the place she was discharged after preliminary remedy, police stated.

    The incident happened following a conflict between the police and the SSC job aspirant after they tried to march in the direction of Raj Bhawan to submit a deputation.

    Following the incident, a BJP delegation went to Raj Bhawan to satisfy Governor Jagdeep Dhankhar.

    Later, Governor Jagdeep Dhankhar tweeted a video exhibiting an unidentified girl attempting to hold herself within the presence of a senior police officer.

    The SSC job aspirants have been demonstrating demanding instant placements for round 145 days, 

    Meanwhile, Opposition events of West Bengal on Thursday demanded the resignation of Education Minister Partha Chatterjee and his deputy Paresh Chandra Adhikari from their posts within the wake of the CBI investigation within the SSC rip-off, at the same time as Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee threatened to show “illegal” recruitments made through the erstwhile Left Front regime.

    As the CBI questioned the 2 ministers on consecutive days since Wednesday on Calcutta High Court orders in reference to instances associated to the rip-off, Banerjee accused the BJP-led central authorities of unleashing a “Tughlaqi raj” within the nation and “misusing federal companies to settle political scores”.

    The company has been investigating plenty of instances the place instructing and non-teaching workers had been allegedly appointed illegally in colleges following suggestions by the West Bengal Central School Service Commission (SSC).

    BJP state president Sukanta Majumdar and senior CPI(M) chief Sujan Chakraborty demanded that each ministers ought to resign for his or her alleged involvement within the rip-off.

    In an obvious reference to the CBI investigation into the SSC rip-off, Banerjee stated, “A number of issues are being stated about discrepancies in recruitment. People are properly conscious of those that are concerned in corruption. They do not like such folks, nor do I. If somebody has dedicated any mistaken, the legislation will take its personal course.

    “But this vilification campaign should stop. During the Left Front regime, transfers were made and jobs were given by writing down names on (plain) paper. I will reveal the irregularities soon.”

    Reacting to the allegation of the TMC supremo, CPI(M) chief Sujan Chakraborty claimed that Banerjee is attempting to divert consideration by blaming the Left Front authorities.

    “The allegations are baseless. If there was any wrongdoing in recruitments during the Left rule, let the TMC prove it. We are not afraid of any investigation. Both the ministers should immediately resign from their posts,” Chakraborty stated.

    The Central Bureau of Investigation had on Wednesday quizzed senior TMC chief and Industry Minister Partha Chatterjee because the alleged recruitment rip-off had taken place when he was the training minister.

    Adhikari who’s the minister of state for training was grilled on Thursday by CBI sleuths concerning a case of alleged unlawful appointment of his daughter as a trainer in a state government-aided college.

    BJP state president Sukanta Majumdar mocked Adhikari for disappearing impulsively as a substitute of showing earlier than the CBI.

    “It seems some magic was going on as the minister suddenly went missing and again reappeared. This only proves how those guilty are trying to evade the investigating agencies. He should resign as minister,” Majumdar stated.

    The courtroom had directed Adhikari to look earlier than the CBI on May 17.

    He was seen to board the Kolkata-bound Padatik Express practice at Jalpaiguri Road station in north Bengal alongside along with his daughter on May 17 evening however had remained untraceable since then.

    Following contemporary excessive courtroom orders, he appeared earlier than the CBI on Thursday night after initially failing to satisfy the three pm deadline set by the courtroom on Thursday.

    Senior TMC leaders maintained a stoic silence on the difficulty.

    “The law will take its own course. We don’t want to comment on this issue as of now as it is sub-judice. Those who have been summoned are yet to comment. So, it won’t be right to make any on behalf of the party,” TMC spokesperson Kunal Ghosh stated.

    Senior chief and minister Shashi Panja additionally refused to remark saying that the matter is sub-judice.

  • 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.