New Delhi: The Calcutta High Court ordered Bengal Minister Partha Chatterjee to appear before the CBI by 6 pm on Wednesday in connection with the SSC appointments scam, news agency PTI reported. The order came after a division bench of the Calcutta HC upheld the orders of a single bench on Wednesday that directed the CBI to inquire into alleged illegal appointments given by the West Bengal Board of Secondary Education on recommendations by the School Service Commission.
The division bench, comprising Justices Subrata Talukder and A K Mukherjee, called "irregularities" in recommending appointments of teaching and non-teaching staff by SSC a "public scam". The division bench held that the single bench of Justice Abhijit Gangopadhyay was not wrong in ordering a probe into the alleged money trail involved and the orders require no intervention.
The single bench had also ordered Partha Chatterjee to appear before the CBI holding that a five-member committee overseeing the appointment process for a 2016 panel for recruitment of teachers for classes 9 and 10 and group C and D staff in government-aided schools was illegal, PTI reported.
According to PTI, the orders were earlier stayed by the division bench after a series of appeals.
On Wednesday, the judgment was passed on the appeals by the division bench which also accepted the recommendations of the Justice R K Bag committee calling for the prosecution of the then senior officials connected to the scam.