Last Updated: January 05, 2023, 23:34 IST
Partha Chatterjee, the now-suspended Trinamool Congress chief, was arrested by the ED final month in reference to its investigation into irregularities within the recruitment of lecturers by the School Service Commission. (Photo: Twitter)
The particular CBI court docket choose additionally requested the central investigating company to hurry up its investigation within the case.
A CBI court docket right here rejected the bail prayer of former West Bengal minister Partha Chatterjee, who was arrested by the probe company in reference to the School Service Commission recruitment rip-off and prolonged his judicial remand until January 19.
The particular CBI court docket choose additionally requested the central investigating company to hurry up its investigation within the case. Opposing Chatterjee’s bail prayer, the CBI counsel claimed that investigation is on to unearth cash which allegedly modified fingers for giving educating and non-teaching jobs to undeserving candidates in West Bengal authorities sponsored and aided faculties and that he’s an influential individual.
Chatterjee’s attorneys submitted that he was falsely implicated and was not within the know of the day-to-day functioning of the five-member committee which was set as much as oversee the appointment technique of a 2016 panel for recruitment of lecturers for courses 9 and ten and group C and D employees in faculties run by the state authorities or aided by it.
Chatterjee was arrested by the Enforcement Directorate (ED) on July 23 after enormous quantities of money, jewelry and property deeds had been seized from the residences of his alleged shut affiliate Arpita Mukherjee. He was taken into CBI custody on September 16 on a court docket order.
He held the training portfolio between 2014 and 2021 when the irregularities in recruitment of educating and non-teaching employees in state authorities sponsored and aided faculties are alleged to have taken place.
The Calcutta High Court ordered the CBI investigation into the irregularities, following which the ED additionally began probe into alleged cash path within the rip-off.
Chatterjee was relieved of his ministerial duties by the Mamata Banerjee authorities following his arrest by the ED. He held a number of portfolios together with parliamentary affairs, business and commerce when he was arrested.
The Trinamool Congress additionally eliminated him from all posts he held within the occasion, together with that of its secretary normal.
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