School jobs rip-off: CBI raids West Bengal varsity Vice-Chancellor’s workplace
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KOLKATA: The Central Bureau of Investigation on Wednesday raided the workplace of North Bengal University (NBU) Vice-Chancellor Subires Bhattacharyya in Siliguri in reference to its probe into the varsity recruitment rip-off, and sealed his house in Kolkata.
Bhattacharyya’s title figured within the report of a committee shaped by the Calcutta High Court, that acknowledged that unlawful appointments have been made, on suggestions of the School Service Commission (SSC), in institutes run or aided by the West Bengal authorities previously few years.
Bhattacharyya was the SSC chairman between 2014 and 2018.
A 12-member CBI staff raided the NBU vice-chancellor’s workplace in Siliguri, the biggest city within the northern a part of the state.
“We have conducted raids and seized some documents and confiscated his mobile phone,” a CBI official mentioned. Another staff sealed Bhattacharyya’s house in Bansdroni space of Kolkata. He now lives in Siliguri. Attempts to contact the NBU vice-chancellor failed.
The report submitted to the excessive courtroom by Justice (retd) R Okay Bag-headed committee mentioned {that a} five-member panel shaped in 2019 by the Education Department, when senior Trinamool Congress chief Partha Chatterjee held the portfolio, for monitoring recruitments of instructing and non-teaching workers didn’t have any authorized validity.
The central investigating company on August 10 arrested former SSC adviser Dr Shanti Prasad Sinha and its ex-secretary Ashok Kumar Saha, who have been a part of the panel.
The then training minister Partha Chatterjee and his alleged shut affiliate Arpita Mukherjee have been earlier arrested by the Enforcement Department (ED) which is monitoring the cash path within the rip-off.
KOLKATA: The Central Bureau of Investigation on Wednesday raided the workplace of North Bengal University (NBU) Vice-Chancellor Subires Bhattacharyya in Siliguri in reference to its probe into the varsity recruitment rip-off, and sealed his house in Kolkata.
Bhattacharyya’s title figured within the report of a committee shaped by the Calcutta High Court, that acknowledged that unlawful appointments have been made, on suggestions of the School Service Commission (SSC), in institutes run or aided by the West Bengal authorities previously few years.
Bhattacharyya was the SSC chairman between 2014 and 2018.
A 12-member CBI staff raided the NBU vice-chancellor’s workplace in Siliguri, the biggest city within the northern a part of the state.
“We have conducted raids and seized some documents and confiscated his mobile phone,” a CBI official mentioned. Another staff sealed Bhattacharyya’s house in Bansdroni space of Kolkata. He now lives in Siliguri. Attempts to contact the NBU vice-chancellor failed.
The report submitted to the excessive courtroom by Justice (retd) R Okay Bag-headed committee mentioned {that a} five-member panel shaped in 2019 by the Education Department, when senior Trinamool Congress chief Partha Chatterjee held the portfolio, for monitoring recruitments of instructing and non-teaching workers didn’t have any authorized validity.
The central investigating company on August 10 arrested former SSC adviser Dr Shanti Prasad Sinha and its ex-secretary Ashok Kumar Saha, who have been a part of the panel.
The then training minister Partha Chatterjee and his alleged shut affiliate Arpita Mukherjee have been earlier arrested by the Enforcement Department (ED) which is monitoring the cash path within the rip-off.
