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Recruitment rip-off in Bengal colleges: CBI registers FIR in opposition to 5 officers

By way of PTI

KOLKATA: The CBI has filed an FIR in opposition to 5 individuals of an advisory panel of the West Bengal Faculty Provider Fee in reference to its probe into alleged irregularities in recruitment to Staff C posts in state government-aided colleges, an legit mentioned on Sunday.

The central company named the advisory committee’s former chairman Shanti Prasad Sinha, SSC’s ex-chairman Soumitra Sarkar, fee’s former secretary Ashok Kumar Saha and its ex-programming officer Samarjit Acharya within the FIR.

It additionally discussed Kalyanmoy Ganguly, the president of the West Bengal Board of Secondary Training within the first knowledge record.

The CBI slapped fees of felony conspiracy, dishonest and forgery in opposition to them, the legit mentioned.

The company has requested the 5 officers to post “main points in their financial institution stability and source of revenue tax returns in addition to main points of houses they have got bought within the names of other folks”, the company legit mentioned.

In its FIR, the central company additionally discussed that the SSC advisory panel used to be shaped “at the insistence” of the then schooling minister Partha Chatterjee, he mentioned.

The improvement got here after state minister Paresh Adhikari used to be interrogated for the 3rd consecutive day on Saturday at the ‘unlawful” appointment of his daughter as a trainer in a government-aided faculty.

The company had additionally quizzed Chatterjee in reference to its investigation into the alleged irregularities in recruitment to colleges.

Chatterjee, who’s now the trade and trade minister of the Mamata Banerjee authorities, used to be the schooling minister when the alleged unlawful appointments have been made.

A department bench of the Calcutta Prime Court docket on Would possibly 18 upheld a unmarried bench order for CBI inquiry into “unlawful” appointments made in government-aided colleges through the West Bengal Board of Secondary Training at the suggestions of the SSC.