Recruitment scam in Bengal schools: CBI registers FIR against five officials

The CBI has registered an FIR against five members of an advisory panel of the West Bengal School Service Commission in connection with the probe into alleged irregularities in recruitment to Group C posts in government-aided schools in the state. An official gave this information on Sunday. The central agency has named Shanti Prasad Sinha, former chairman of the advisory committee, former SSC chairman Soumitra Sarkar, former commission secretary Ashok Kumar Saha and its former programming officer Samarjit Acharya, in the FIR.

It also mentions Kalyanmoy Ganguly, president of the West Bengal Board of Secondary education In the First Information Report, the officer said that the CBI has framed charges of criminal conspiracy, cheating and forgery against him. The agency official said the agency has asked the five officials to submit their bank balance and income tax returns as well as details of properties purchased in the names of others. He said that in its FIR, the central agency has also mentioned that the SSC advisory panel was formed on the “earned” of the then education minister Partha Chatterjee. The developments came to light after Minister of State Paresh Adhikari was questioned for the third consecutive day on Saturday over his daughter’s “illegal” appointment as a teacher in a government-aided school.

The agency had also questioned Chatterjee in connection with its probe into alleged irregularities in recruitment in schools. Chatterjee, who is now the Minister of Industries and Commerce Mamata Banerjee The government was the education minister when the alleged illegal appointments were made. A division bench of the Calcutta High Court on May 18 upheld a single bench order of a CBI probe into “illegal” appointments in government-aided schools by the West Bengal Board of Secondary Education on the recommendations of the SSC.

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