CBI makes first arrests in Bengal education scam, 2 officials in custody
India Today
The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) arrested two former officials of the West Bengal School Service Commission (SSC) in connection with the ongoing teacher's recruitment case.
The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) on Wednesday made its first arrests in the West Bengal teachers recruitment scam case. The investigating agency arrested Shanti Prasad Sinha, former advisor of West Bengal School Service Commission (SSC) and former chairman of SSC, Ashok Saha, in connection with the case.
According to a statement by the CBI, the two violated the provisions of the SSC rules and collected the vacancies of Group C staff in an unauthorised manner and issued recommendations for unsuccessful candidates for those vacancies. They forged the signatures of the chairpersons of the regional commission to issue these recommendations.
Appointment letters were then issued on the basis of these recommendations, bypassing the normal chain hierarchy and without posting the selected candidates’ names on the website.
“Thus, the deserving genuine candidates were debarred from getting the regular salaried jobs,” said the CBI.
Meanwhile, the Enforcement Directorate (ED) sent a notice to TMC MLA Manik Bhattacharya in connection with the case. He was asked to appear before the investigating officer at the ED office in Kolkata next week.
The ED had earlier recovered some important documents in a raid conducted on his residence. He was then summoned by the probe agency for questioning. Manik Bhattacharya had already appeared at the ED office twice.
Earlier, he was removed from his post of the president of West Bengal primary education board after an order of the Kolkata High court.
