Calcutta HC removes Bengal minister’s daughter from job, asks her to return salary
India Today
Calcutta HC on Friday removed the daughter of Bengal minister Paresh Adhikari from her post in a government-aided school in connection with the SSC scam case.
In the teacher recruitment scam, the Calcutta High Court on Friday dismissed the employment of a West Bengal minister’s daughter in a government-aided school and asked her to return the salary she had drawn in two installments.
A single bench of Justice Avijit Gangopadhyay ordered the removal of Ankita Adhikari, daughter of Paresh Adhikari, Minister of State for Education.
The bench also directed Ankita Adhikari to deposit the salary paid to her since November 2018 in two installments with the registrar general of the high court.
She has to pay the first installment by June 7 and the second by July 7 this year.
The court also ordered that Ankita should not be treated as a teacher recommended by the West Bengal School Service Commission (SSC) and appointed by the West Bengal Board of Secondary Education. It also barred her from entering the school premises till further orders.
The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) had registered a case of cheating against minister Paresh Chandra Adhikari and his daughter on Thursday.
Adhikari, along with his daughter, were booked under IPC sections 420 (cheating and dishonesty) and 120B (criminal conspiracy), besides sections under the Prevention of Corruption Act.
