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