Trinamool grappling with repeated Calcutta HC orders of probe by central agencies in WB
The Hindu
The developments centering cases relating to West Bengal school job scam has brought the focus on the repeated directions by the Calcutta High Court ordering investigation by central agencies in scams, irregularities and incidents of violence in the State
The developments centering Justice Abhijit Gangopadhyay who has been taken off cases relating to West Bengal school job scam has brought the focus on the repeated directions by the Calcutta High Court ordering investigation by central agencies in scams, irregularities and incidents of violence in the State. Justice Gangopadhyay had directed investigation by central agencies on more than a dozen occasions in irregularities relating to the West Bengal school job scam, the last being in the alleged municipal recruitment scam.
Not only Justice Gangopadhyay but several other benches of the Calcutta High Court had directed investigation by central agencies into irregularities and violence in West Bengal over the past two years.
On April 27, a division bench of Justice of Acting Chief Justice T.S. Sivagnanam and Justice Hiranmay Bhattacharyya directed the National Investigation Agency (NIA) to conduct a probe into the violence during Ram Navami procession at Shibpur in Howrah, Dalkhola in Uttar Dinajpur and Rishra in Hooghly district. The very next day, Indranil Khan, the president of Bharatiya Janata Yuva Morcha filed a petition demanding a probe by central agencies into the killing of a Rajbangshi youth at Kaliachak. The matter will come up for hearing next week.
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Reacting to the developments at the Calcutta High Court, Trinamool Congress general secretary Abhishek Banerjee said, “In 22 months (since Trinamool came to power in 2021) there have been directions of probe by central agencies 23 times”.
After coming to power for the third consecutive time in 2021, the Trinamool Congress Government has been grappling with repeated orders of Calcutta High Court where it had directed investigation by central agencies.
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