A list of sitting and former Trinamool Congress MLAs who have recommended recruitment of out-of-turn teachers by the West Bengal School Service Commission (WBSSC) was submitted to the Calcutta High Court on Tuesday.
The petitioners’ counsel, Tarunjyoti Tiwari, duly signed the copies of the recommendations on the letterheads of these sitting and formal MLAs to a division bench headed by Chief Justice Prakash Srivastava.
None of the names recommended by ruling party MPs qualified in the written test for recruitment of teachers conducted by WBSSC in 2014, when the current state commerce and industry minister and Trinamool general secretary Partha Chatterjee. education Minister.
Present and former public representatives named in the case include state fisheries minister Akhil Giri, former Balagarh (Hooghly) MLA Aseem Majhi and former Bijpur (North 24 Parganas) MLA Subhranshu Roy.
Roy is the son of former Trinamool national general secretary and currently official BJP MLA Mukul Roy, who is facing a case in the Calcutta High Court for disqualification since he rejoined the Trinamool after the 2021 assembly elections.
However, the bench of Justice Srivastava has reserved the decision. Already the Central Bureau of Investigation and the Enforcement Directorate are conducting parallel investigations into the WBSSC recruitment irregularities scam.
Since the order of the single-judge bench, 269 persons have lost their jobs as all of them got jobs without passing the examination in violation of the norms. Chatterjee has also been questioned several times by CBI officials in this case.
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