Bengal school jobs scam: CBI issues summons to Trinamool Congress general secretary Abhishek Banerjee
The Hindu
The CBI has summoned Trinamool Congress general secretary Abhishek Banerjee in connection with his alleged involvement in the school jobs-for-bribes scam
The CBI has summoned Trinamool Congress general secretary Abhishek Banerjee in connection with his alleged involvement in the school jobs-for-bribes scam. The summons has been issued on the same day when the Supreme Court stayed the Calcutta High Court’s April 13 order directing the West Bengal police not to lodge any FIR against CBI and Enforcement Directorate officers probing the scam.
“In its desperation to ‘harass’ and ‘target’ me, BJP exposes CBI and ED to contempt of Court. The SC stayed the Calcutta HC’s order in the morning that granted permission to the Central Agencies to summon me. Yet, the ‘summon’ was hand-delivered today at 1:45 p.m. It’s a grave state of affairs!” Mr. Banerjee said responding to the notice.
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Earlier, a Bench comprising Chief Justice D. Y. Chandrachud and Justices P. S. Narasimha and J. B. Pardiwala, which decided to hear the plea on April 24, also stayed the direction of a single judge bench of the high court that TMC leader Abhishek Banerjee and Kuntal Ghosh, an accused in the case, can be questioned by the ED and the CBI, and such “interrogation should be made soon.”
“The petition was in the mentioning list. Dr A. M. Singhvi has adverted to the contents of the order and the directions passed by which the ED and CBI have been directed to file a report with respect to a probe in connection with a public speech by Abhishek Banerjee. List on April 24, 2023. Till the next date of listing, there shall be stay on all action against petitioner in relation to the directions passed in impugned order,” the Supreme Court ordered.
The Calcutta High Court on April 13 had passed a slew of directions, asking the police not to lodge FIRs on complaints against officers of the CBI or the ED who are investigating the educational recruitment scam of the West Bengal Central School Service Commission and the West Bengal Board of Primary Education without its permission.
It had asked the central agencies to probe the role of state TMC leaders in the case.
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