The Supreme Court on Monday provided interim relief to Trinamool Congress MP Abhishek Banerjee by putting a stay on investigations against him by the Enforcement Directorate and the Central Bureau of Investigation in connection with the Bengal recruitment scam. As per ANI, the next hearing on Banerjee’s plea will take place on April 24. On the instruction of the Kolkata High Court, the central agencies are probing the scam related to the recruitment in state-run and-aided schools in the state.
On Monday, the CBI arrested Trinamool Congress MLA Jiban Krishna Saha from his residence in Murshidabad’s Burwan after a marathon interrogation since April 14.
The CBI officials brought him to their Kolkata office. According to the officials, Saha had thrown two mobile phones in a pond adjacent to his house when the federal agency’s team arrived at his residence on Friday morning.
While the officers have retrieved one of the mobile phones after pumping out all the water from the pond, search for the other one is still on.
Experts were at work to retrieve the data stored in the recovered device, the official added.
"We are leaving no stone unturned to find out the other mobile," he said.
The CBI officials seized at least five bags, full of documents, from a garbage dumping site near Saha’s residence, he said.
Another team of CBI sleuths had raided the house of former TMC block president Bibhas Adhikari in Birbhum district on April 15 for his alleged involvement in the school job scandal.