CBI arrests 6 in West Bengal SSC recruitment scam

Those arrested were allegedly working as agents, collecting money from candidates and facilitating their employment in various schools across the state. 

The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) has arrested six people, including main suspect Chandan Mondal, in connection with its investigation into the alleged irregularities in the recruitment made by the West Bengal School Service Commission (SSC), a senior official said. 

He said those arrested were allegedly working as agents, collecting money from candidates, and facilitating their employment in various schools across the state, Business Standard reported. "We have got specific proof against them," the CBI officer said. These people were being questioned by the investigation agency, he said. 

Several people have been arrested by the agency in connection with the irregularities, including former education minister Partha Chatterjee, he added. The Calcutta High Court had last week directed the West Bengal Board of Secondary Education to cancel jobs of 1,911 ‘Group D’ employees, who were recruited in state government-sponsored and aided schools illegally, following manipulation of recruitment examination results. 

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