Calcutta HC directs CBI to look into appointments of 269 primary school teachers. (representative image)
Passing the order, Justice Abhijit Gangopadhyay directed the Secretary of the Board of Elementary Education Ratna Chakraborty Bagchi and Chairman Manik Bhattacharya to appear before the CBI.
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The Calcutta High Court has directed the CBI to probe the appointment of 269 primary school teachers in West Bengal government-sponsored and aided schools, alleging that they did not pass the eligibility test. Passing the order, Justice Abhijit Gangopadhyay on Monday directed Board of Primary Education secretary Ratna Chakraborty Bagchi and chairman Manik Bhattacharya to appear in the CBI’s office later in the day.
Justice Gangopadhyay directed the central agency to register a case in connection with the alleged illegal appointments in primary schools and initiate an investigation immediately. The petitioner alleged that out of around 23 lakh candidates in the Teacher Eligibility Test (TET) in 2014, 269 candidates were given an additional ‘one’ number for wrong questions.
He claimed that a second panel with the names of these 269 candidates was published in 2017. Terming the second panel as invalid, the court observed that the appointments of these 269 candidates were void.
It directed that the salaries of these teachers working in various schools in the state be withheld and they be barred from entering their respective workplaces. In the light of the directions of the High Court, both Chakravarti Bagchi and Bhattacharya appeared before the CBI officials and were interrogated for more than four hours.
Justice Gangopadhyay had earlier ordered a CBI probe into at least eight cases of alleged illegality in the appointment of teaching and non-teaching staff by the West Bengal Board of Secondary Education. education Government sponsored and aided schools.
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