Calcutta High Court bars CBI from taking ex-SSC advisor into custody in recruitment scandal

By PTI

KOLKATA: A division bench of the Calcutta High Court on Tuesday refused to intrude with an order of a single bench that directed former advisor of West Bengal School Service Commission SP Sinha to look earlier than the CBI in reference to alleged irregularities in recruitment however barred the company from taking him into custody.

Sinha went to the CBI workplace at 5.10 pm of Tuesday following the order of the division bench.

Observing {that a} keep granted to him by one other division bench presided by Justice Soumen Sen expired on Monday, Justice Abhijit Gangopadhyay permitted the Central Bureau of Investigation to carry custodial interrogation of him and directed the officer-in-charge of Survey Park Police station in Kolkata to make sure the presence of Sinha earlier than the company.

Taking up an attraction by Sinha, the division bench presided by Justice Subrata Talukdar didn’t intrude with the order of Justice Gangopadhyay that he has to look earlier than the CBI on Tuesday itself, whereas directing that the company won’t take him into custody.

Justice Gangopadhyay directed Sinha to look earlier than the central company for interrogation by 3 pm of Tuesday “as the stay order he was enjoying till Monday has not been extended by any court of law”.

The division bench presided by Justice Talukdar directed Sinha to look earlier than the CBI throughout the day.

The division bench headed by Justice Sen had on Friday granted a keep on Justice Gangopadhyay’s earlier order for Sinha’s look earlier than the CBI until Monday.

The central company had on Thursday questioned Sinha on an order of the only bench.

Justice Gangopadhyay on Monday directed 4 members of a five-man committee constituted by the West Bengal School Education Department in November, 2019 for monitoring pending recruitment of instructing and non-teaching workers in government-aided faculties to look earlier than the CBI in reference to alleged irregularities within the course of by which the court docket had earlier ordered the central company to carry an enquiry.

The committee was headed by Sinha and the opposite 4 members had been S Acharya, PK Bandopadhyay, AK Sarkar and T Panja.

A division bench comprising justices Harish Tandon and Rabindranath Samanta on Monday launched all issues it was listening to in an attraction difficult orders of the only bench in relation to alleged irregularities within the appointments.

The single bench of Justice Gangopadhyay had on March 30 questioned an order of the division bench within the attraction difficult his path for submission of an affidavit of property by Sinha in a petition alleging irregularities within the appointments.

Thereafter, three division benches of the excessive court docket refused to listen to the attraction on Monday and one other division bench on Tuesday didn’t agree to listen to the matter and returned it to the court docket of the chief justice.