SIT to probe teachers recruitment case, Calcutta HC to CBI

The Calcutta high court on Wednesday ordered the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) to set up a dedicated special investigation team (SIT) to probe the alleged corruption in the recruitment of school teachers by the Trinamool Congress (TMC) government on a suggestion by a former CBI officer Upen Biswas who led the agency’s probe into Bihar’s fodder scam in the 1990s. The bench of justice Abhijit Gangopadhyay, which earlier ordered CBI to investigate the recruitment of high school teachers and staff by the School Service Commission in 2018, on June 8 asked the 81-year-old retired Indian Police Service (IPS) officer for help.Lawyers representing the CBI told the court that results in the teacher recruitment cases will soon be visible as a new joint director has joined the Kolkata office.Reacting to Wednesday’s development, TMC spokesperson Jay Prakash Majumdar said : “The state police was carrying out an investigation in this case. The track record of the CBI is not very impressive if one takes into account old cases such as the theft of Rabindranath Tagore’s Nobel Prize medallion in 2004.”