Bengal school job rip-off: SC stays Calcutta HC order to not to lodge FIRs in the direction of CBI, ED

By PTI

NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court on Monday stayed the Calcutta High Court’s April 13 order directing the West Bengal police to not lodge any FIR in the direction of CBI and Enforcement Directorate officers probing the varsity jobs-for-bribes rip-off.

A bench comprising Chief Justice D Y Chandrachud and Justices P S Narasimha and J B Pardiwalam, which decided to take heed to the plea on April 24, moreover stayed the trail of a single select bench of the extreme courtroom docket that TMC chief Abhishek Banerjee and Kuntal Ghosh, an accused throughout the case, will probably be questioned by the ED and the CBI and such “interrogation should be made soon”.

“The petition was in the mentioning list. Dr A M Singhvi has adverted to the contents of the order and the directions passed by which the ED and CBI have been directed to file a report with respect to a probe in connection with a public speech by Abhishek Banerjee. List on April 24, 2023. Till the next date of listing, there shall be a stay on all action against petitioner in relation to the directions passed in the impugned order,” the apex courtroom docket ordered.

NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court on Monday stayed the Calcutta High Court’s April 13 order directing the West Bengal police to not lodge any FIR in the direction of CBI and Enforcement Directorate officers probing the varsity jobs-for-bribes rip-off.

A bench comprising Chief Justice D Y Chandrachud and Justices P S Narasimha and J B Pardiwalam, which decided to take heed to the plea on April 24, moreover stayed the trail of a single select bench of the extreme courtroom docket that TMC chief Abhishek Banerjee and Kuntal Ghosh, an accused throughout the case, will probably be questioned by the ED and the CBI and such “interrogation should be made soon”.

“The petition was in the mentioning list. Dr A M Singhvi has adverted to the contents of the order and the directions passed by which the ED and CBI have been directed to file a report with respect to a probe in connection with a public speech by Abhishek Banerjee. List on April 24, 2023. Till the next date of listing, there shall be a stay on all action against petitioner in relation to the directions passed in the impugned order,” the apex courtroom docket ordered.googletag.cmd.push(function() googletag.present(‘div-gpt-ad-8052921-2’); );