The charge sheet also named 15 others as accused including former SSC advisor Shanti Prasad Sinha, ex-SSC assistant secretary Ashok Kumar Saha and the then president of Adhoc Committee at the Board of Secondary Education, Kalyanmoy Ganguly. The charge sheet also mentioned several illegally appointed candidates.
WB SSC Scam: CBI submits charge sheet, names ex-education minister Partha Chatterjee
The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) has filed its first charge sheet in a Special CBI court in connection with the West Bengal School Service Commission (SSC) recruitment scam. The CBI in its charge sheet named ex-education minister Partha Chatterjee as one of the accused.
The charge sheet also named 15 others as accused including former SSC advisor Shanti Prasad Sinha, ex-SSC assistant secretary Ashok Kumar Saha and the then president of Adhoc Committee at the Board of Secondary Education, Kalyanmoy Ganguly. The charge sheet also mentioned several illegally appointed candidates.
It was alleged in this case that the accused people entered into a conspiracy with one another to extend undue advantage in the matter of giving appointments to unqualified candidates to Group-C posts at various schools after the expiry of a panel.
It must be noted that the CBI is probing the alleged irregularities in the recruitment of teaching and non-teaching staff in upper primary and secondary schools in the state under the direction of the Calcutta High Court. The alleged irregularities happened when Chatterjee was the education minister.
In July last week, Chatterjee was arrested by the Enforcement Directorate when he was the state’s industry and commerce minister. Following the arrest, he was stripped of his portfolios. The ruling Trinamool Congress also suspended him. The CBI arrested Sinha in August. Chatterjee, Sinha, Ganguly and Saha are now in judicial custody.
The CBI also maintained how some candidates, who even submitted blank answer-sheets or with answers to only a couple of questions, were granted higher marks of above 50 with the clear intention of accommodating ineligible candidates against some consideration.
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