The Calcutta High Court has directed the CBI to look into the appointments of 269 major college lecturers in West Bengal authorities colleges over allegations that they didn’t cross the eligibility take a look at.
Passing the order, Justice Abhijit Gangopadhyay on Monday directed the first training board secretary Ratna Chakraborti Bagchi and president Manik Bhattacharya to seem earlier than the CBI at its workplace later within the day.
Justice Gangopadhyay directed the central company to institute a case and begin an investigation forthwith into the alleged unlawful appointments to major colleges.
The petitioner alleged that the 269 candidates got an extra ‘one’ quantity for a fallacious query out of round 23 lakh aspirants within the Teachers’ Eligibility Test (TET) in 2014. He claimed {that a} second panel with names of those 269 candidates was revealed in 2017.
Maintaining that the second panel was unlawful, the court docket mentioned the appointments of those 269 candidates had been void. It directed that the salaries of those lecturers working in numerous colleges of the state be stopped and that they be disallowed from coming into their respective locations of labor.
Both Chakraborti Bagchi and Bhattacharya, within the wake of the excessive court docket instructions, appeared earlier than CBI sleuths and confronted grilling for greater than 4 hours.
Justice Gangopadhyay had earlier ordered CBI investigations in at the least eight instances of alleged illegalities within the appointment of educating and non-teaching employees by the West Bengal Board of Secondary Education in government-sponsored and-aided colleges.
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