The court had also asked the Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee and Governor Jagdeep Dhankar to remove the minister in question from the state cabinet.
Calcutta HC upholds single-bench orders directing CBI probe in illegal teachers, non-teachers appointment
The Calcutta High Court today upheld the orders of the single bench that asked the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) to interrogate West Bengal minister Paresh Adhikari in connection with the Class 11th and Class 12th teacher recruitment scam. The court had also asked the Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee and Governor Jagdeep Dhankar to remove the minister in question from the state cabinet.
The Calcutta HC had passed the order on a plea by a candidate alleging that she was not given a job despite scoring high marks in the teacher recruitment examination. The petitioner accused the minister of giving a teaching post to his daughter even when she scored lesser marks than the petitioner.
While terming irregularities in the appointment of teaching and non-teaching staff as the public can, the division bench, comprising justices Subrata Talukder and A K Mukherjee, said that the single bench of Justice Abhijit Gangopadhyay was not wrong in ordering a probe into the alleged money trail involved. The division bench said the orders of the single bench require no intervention.
The then state education minister Partha Chatterjee has been asked to appear in front of the CBI, and the five-member committee has also been formed to look after the appointment process for a 2016 panel for recruitment of teachers for classes 9 and 10 and groups C and D staff in government-aided schools was illegal. All these orders had earlier been stayed by the division bench on a series of appeals.
Justice Abhijit Gangopadhyay directed that the minister appear before the CBI authorities by Tuesday evening for interrogation over the allegations.
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