CBI arrests North Bengal University VC in teacher recruitment scam

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Subires Bhattacharyya, Vice-Chancellor of North Bengal University, was detained by the CBI in 2016 in connection with an assistant teachers’ recruitment fraud in West Bengal.

According to sources, he was arrested on Monday after the investigative agency summoned him for interrogation at the CBI office in Kolkata and found him “uncooperative.” Bhattacharyya’s arrest came after the FBI raided his home and workplace in August of this year.

According to central agency sources, Bhattacharyya is also a former School Service Commission (SSC) Chairman who is accused of being involved in irregularities in the hiring of teaching and non-teaching employees in the state.

From 2014 until 2018, he presided over the commission.

The probe was taken up by the CBI after directions from the Calcutta High Court.

Also, the Enforcement Directorate (ED) filed a chargesheet before a court in Kolkata in connection with the recruitment scam.

Meanwhile, the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) on September 15 arrested the former president of the West Bengal Board of Secondary Education, Kalyanmoy Ganguly, for his alleged involvement in the School Service Commission (SSC) scam case.

“It was alleged that the accused extended undue advantage and in conspiracy with others had facilitated illegal appointment to the undeserving and unlisted candidates to the post of Group-C staffs in various schools across the state of West Bengal,” read a statement by CBI.

The current complaint was filed with the CBI in May of this year.

The CBI conducted searches at six sites in Delhi and Kolkata on Thursday in connection with the West Bengal School Service Commission (SSC) scandal.

In connection with the School Service Commission (SSC) recruitment fraud case, a special court in Kolkata has prolonged the judicial custody of former West Bengal Minister Partha Chatterjee and his close friend, Arpita Mukherjee, till September 14.

On August 18, the Calcutta High Court ordered West Bengal TMC leader Anubrata Mondal’s daughter Sukanya Mondal to present her Teacher Eligibility Test certificate.

She was appeared in court in connection with a suit alleging that she was hired as a teacher despite failing the TET test.

Partha Chatterjee and Arpita Mukherjee, the accused in the case, were detained in July in connection with the recruiting fraud.

The Enforcement Directorate searched various locations associated with Arpita Mukherjee in the fraud.

In conjunction with its operations into the scandal, the investigation agency has collected over Rs 50 crore in cash, foreign money, jewellery, and gold biscuits.

Chatterjee served as Trinamool Congress education minister from 2014 until 2021.

Following his detention, Chatterjee was removed from his position as a minister and suspended from the Trinamool Congress.

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