The Calcutta High Court on Thursday directed the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) to start the probe into the alleged recruitment scam of the School Service Commission (SSC) by midnight. The court specified that the interrogation should begin by midnight.
“I have found from other similar cases that said” [adviser to the School Service Commission] Shanti Prasad Sinha is considered one of the kingpins of this corruption giving illegal public appointments. Therefore, I direct the Regional Head of the Central Bureau of Investigation to call Mr. Sinha during the day and initiate his interrogation. CBI is directed to start the said inquiry during the day – I mean by 12 midnight today [on Thursday]Justice Gangopadhyay said in an order.
Justice Gangopadhyay said in the order that a large number of cases had come before the court in respect of such illegal appointments and now the record of statements made by the said Mr. Sinha. [programme officer] Samarjit Acharya is before this court with some exhibitions.”
The judge pointed out that this court summoned Mr. Sinha, Adviser to the School Service Commission, and Mr. Acharya, Program Officer of the Commission, and “asked them some questions, from where it appears that on the basis of some recommendation from outside the office, Mr. Sinha said But the recommendation letters of the Commission were printed by the Program Officer in which the signature of the Chairman of the Commission was mechanically printed.
writes to CJI
On Wednesday, Justice Gangopadhyay wrote to the Chief Justice of India and the Chief Justice of the Calcutta High Court bringing to his notice the decision of his court, where he directed a CBI inquiry into allegations of corruption in the recruitment of teachers and non- The Division Bench of the High Court has stayed the teaching staff. On four occasions, orders for a CBI inquiry passed by his court were stayed by a division bench of the Calcutta High Court.