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  • Municipal Recruitment Scam: Calcutta High Court Refuses To Hear Bengal Government’s Plea

    Municipal Recruitment Scam: Calcutta High Court Refuses To Hear Bengal Government’s Plea

    Kolkata (IANS) | The Calcutta High Court on Friday declined to entertain a plea by the West Bengal government challenging the same court’s order for a CBI probe into the municipal recruitment case. A division bench of Justices Arijit Banerjee and Aruba Sinha Roy declined to hear the matter on the ground that it was not their subject.

    The matter has been sent back to a division bench of Chief Justice Sivagnanam and Justice Hiranmoy Bhattacharya.

    The original order for the CBI probe was given by a single bench of Justice Abhijit Gangopadhyay of the High Court. However, the state government approached the Supreme Court, which referred the matter back to the Calcutta High Court.

    The state government then approached a single-judge bench of Justice Amrita Sinha of the Calcutta High Court with a petition seeking quashing of the order for a CBI probe into the matter.

    However, Justice Sinha, on May 12, upheld the probe ordered by Justice Gangopadhyay’s bench.

    Finally, on May 16, the state government again approached the division bench of Justice Banerjee and Justice Sinha Roy, challenging Justice Sinha’s order.

    The Enforcement Directorate (ED) raids and searches at the residence of private real estate promoter Ayan Sil in connection with a recruitment ‘scam’ in government schools had unearthed irregularities in recruitment in state municipalities.

    –IANS

  • Calcutta HC directs CBI to probe municipal recruitment scam in West Bengal based on ED’s findings

    Calcutta HC directs CBI to probe municipal recruitment scam in West Bengal based on ED’s findings

    The Calcutta High Court has directed the CBI to investigate an alleged scam in municipal recruitments in West Bengal, taking note of the Enforcement Directorate’s findings during its probe into the school jobs for bribes scam. The ED told the high court that common agents like one arrested Ayan Sil in connection with the school jobs for bribes scam were also involved in alleged illegalities in the recruitment of clerks, sweepers, peons, drivers, etc in various municipalities in West Bengal.

    “I direct CBI to carry on investigation in the Municipality Recruitment Scam also which have got common agents like Ayan Sil and common beneficiaries and the victim in both the cases (that is the Education Scam and the Municipality Recruitment Scam) is public/common people at large,” Justice Abhijit Gangopadhyay said in the order.

    In the order passed on Friday, he directed that if necessary, CBI may file one FIR for investigating the case relating to the alleged municipality recruitment scam which the court said was revealed from an application filed by ED Justice Gangopadhyay directed the DGP of West Bengal and the state’s chief secretary to instruct all departments concerned under them to help and assist the CBI and ED in their functioning while investigating the alleged scam in municipal recruitments if so requested by the central agencies.

    The court directed the CBI to file a report on April 28 to inform it of steps taken on the basis of this order. The ED filed the application stating that while investigating the money trail in the teachers’ appointment scam, it came across the alleged scam in municipal recruitments in this state.

    The ED stated that a separate FIR for investigation of the alleged municipality recruitment scam under the relevant provisions of IPC and Prevention of Corruption Act by the predicate agency (meaning thereby CBI) would be required. The ED further submitted that on account of the intermingling of the proceeds of crime of the teachers’ recruitment scam and the alleged irregularities in municipal recruitments and since CBI is investigating the school jobs for bribes scam, ED had shared detailed information with CBI with a request to investigate the latter as well.