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কালীঘাটের কাকুর বিপুল সম্পত্তি বাজেয়াপ্ত করতে চলেছে ইডি, চার্জশিটে অভিষেকের নাম !

প্রকাশ সিনহা, কলকাতা : কালীঘাটের কাকুর (Kalighater Kaku) বিপুল সম্পত্তি বাজেয়াপ্ত করতে চলেছে ইডি। তার প্রক্রিয়াও শুরু হয়েছে। চার্জশিটে ইডি-র (ED) দাবি, এ পর্যন্ত সুজয়কৃষ্ণ ভদ্রর ১১ টি সম্পত্তির হদিশ মিলেছে। এই সব সম্পত্তির মধ্যে রয়েছে একাধিক ফ্ল্যাট, বিভিন্ন জায়গায় জমি। এই সমস্ত সম্পত্তিই কেনা হয়েছে কালীঘাটের কাকু, তাঁর স্ত্রী বাণী ভদ্র ও কাকুর নিয়ন্ত্রিত দুটি কোম্পানির নামে। এদিকে, ইডির…

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25,000 Teachers Fired in West Bengal! Recruitment Scam Exposed

What Happened?

Many West Bengal Teachers Impacted by Recruitment Scam Exposed.The Calcutta High Court has thrown a major wrench into the lives of over 25,000 teachers in West Bengal. The court found irregularities in the 2016 recruitment process for government-aided schools, leading to the cancellation of their appointments. These teachers, now deemed to be illegally hired, will have to return their salaries with interest and face unemployment.

teachers’ recruitment scam: 25000 candidates recruited ILLEGALLY, massive corruption at all levels, says CBI

The Controversy

The controversy stems from allegations of corruption in the 2016 recruitment process conducted by the West Bengal School Service Commission (WBSSC). Some teachers allegedly secured positions by submitting blank OMR sheets, bypassing proper selection procedures. This sparked outrage from qualified candidates who missed out due to the suspected irregularities.

Court’s Orders

Job Termination: The court ordered the termination of 25,753 teachers appointed through the flawed process.

Salary Repayment: These teachers must return their salaries drawn since joining, along with 12% interest, within four weeks. District magistrates are tasked with collecting the money.

Fresh Recruitment: The WBSSC must initiate a fresh and transparent recruitment process.

CBI Probe: The court directed the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) to further investigate the recruitment scam and submit a report within three months.

One Exception: In a rare humanitarian gesture, the court allowed Soma Das, a teacher undergoing cancer treatment, to retain her job.

The Fallout

This decision is a major blow to the Mamata Banerjee government. Several Trinamool Congress leaders, including the former education minister, are already jailed in connection with the recruitment scam. The opposition BJP has seized on the opportunity to criticize the government, claiming it exposes their corruption.

The Legal Battleground

The West Bengal government has indicated they will challenge the High Court order in the Supreme Court. The court has also ordered the CBI (Central Bureau of Investigation) to further probe the recruitment process and submit a report within three months. Additionally, the West Bengal School Service Commission must conduct a fresh recruitment drive.

A Deeper Look: A History of Recruitment Controversies

This isn’t the first time teacher recruitment in West Bengal has faced controversy. Last year, the High Court cancelled the appointments of 32,000 untrained primary teachers recruited through a flawed process. The judge who ordered the CBI probe in that case has since resigned and joined the BJP.

Uncertain Future for Teachers and Students

This situation leaves a lot of uncertainty. Thousands of teachers face losing their jobs, potentially impacting the education of countless students. The fresh recruitment process could take months, creating a gap in the education system. The ongoing legal battle adds another layer of complexity, with a final decision potentially taking a significant amount of time.teachers Recruitment Scam: Protesting SLST 2016 qualified teachers at under Gandhi statue

Impact beyond West Bengal

This case raises questions about the effectiveness of teacher recruitment processes across India. Ensuring fair and transparent procedures is crucial for attracting qualified educators and delivering quality education to students.

Looking Ahead: Potential Solutions

There are several paths forward. The Supreme Court’s decision will be crucial in determining the fate of the teachers. The West Bengal government needs to ensure a fair and transparent new recruitment process. Additionally, a national review of teacher recruitment practices could help prevent similar situations in the future.

This situation is a complex one, with far-reaching consequences. While the court’s decision aims to address corruption, it also creates significant hardship for the affected teachers. Finding a solution that balances accountability with fairness is vital to ensure the stability of the education system in West Bengal and beyond.

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West Bengal SSC Admits ‘Scam’ In Recruitment Of 8611 Employees In 2016 A...

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PM Modi takes veiled dig at Lalu Prasad, Mamata Banerjee over job scams | India News

NEW DELHI: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday attacked family-based parties. His reference to the ‘rate card’ for various government jobs coincided with media disclosures about alleged media disclosures about alleged bribery in thousands of recruitments in municipal bodies in West Bengal under the Mamata Banerjee government, which was already on the back foot over corruption in teachers’…

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TMC leader Abhishek Banerjee appears before CBI in teacher recruitment scam

Trinamool Congress leader Abhishek Banerjee appeared before the Central Bureau of Investigation at its Kolkata office on Saturday morning in a case pertaining to alleged irregularities in the recruitment of primary teachers in West Bengal, reported PTI. Justice Abhijit Gangopadhyay of the High Court had directed on April 13 the two central agencies to question Banerjee in the case. The order was challenged by the Trinamool Congress MP in the Supreme Court who said that the judge had expressed his dislike for him in an interview with ABP Ananda news channel.On April 17, the Supreme Court had stayed the order. On April 28, it ordered the High Court Chief Justice to reassign the case from Justice Gangopadhyay’s bench to some other bench. However, on Thursday, the High Court allowed the two agencies to question Banerjee.The case pertains to jobs being allegedly given to candidates in return for money instead of candidates who had qualified in the recruitment process in 2019. A dozen officials of the state education department, including former minister Partha Chatterjee, have been arrested in the case.While the Central Bureau of Investigation is probing the criminal aspect of the scam, the Enforcement Directorate is looking into the money-trail involved in the alleged irregularities in the recruitment in schools.Banerjee, who...Read more Read the full article

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WEST BENGAL SCHOOL JOB SCAM

The School Selection Commission (SSC) scam in West Bengal came to national limelight after the Enforcement Directorate (ED) unearthed Rs 21 crore 90 lakh in hard cash from Arpita Mukherjee’s residence. Arpita Mukherjee is believed to be a close confidante of Partha Chatterjee,a trusted lieutenant of Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee, a former state education minister and the current minister of commerce and industries. He is under arrest, as is Mukherjee. The matter is being probed by ED as well as the Central Bureau Of Investigation (CBI).

After the formation of the Trinamool Congress (TMC) government in the state in 2011, a serious breach in protocol was noticed in the Regional Level Selection Test (RLST) of 2012 -- a teacher recruitment process, when ranks, according to the combined merit panel, were jumped and lower ranked candidates were recruited as teachers. Many candidates who were at the receiving end of the selection board's “irregularity” knocked on the doors of the court. As of now, related litigations are still pending in Supreme Court.

In the upper primary section, during the start of the recruitment process, many cases were filed alleging that non-trained candidates got a preference for jobs and many out-of-turn candidates were given appointments. On December 11, 2019, the Calcutta High Court, in view of the malpractices, ordered cancellation of the merit list and a halt to the recruitment process.

However, after the recruitment process restarted in 2016, things did not change as various lowly placed candidates were placed on the merit list and were recruited anyway.

The non-teaching staff recruitment panel started the process of filling up forms from August 10 to 31, 2016. On May 4, 2019, the SSC intimated the candidates that the recruitment process was over. Interestingly, after this announcement was made, hundreds of off-panel candidates were hired. At first 25, then 542 people’s salaries were terminated by the Calcutta HC after it found large-scale irregularities in the recruitment process.The last SSC teachers’ recruitment -- SLST for classes 9 and 10 -- was held on November 27, 2016 and the SLST for classes 11 and 12,  was held on December 4, 2016. The Upper Primary Teacher Eligibility Test (TET) exam was last held on August 16, 2015. However, since then, the teacher recruitment process for upper primary school has been stopped in the state.

It was alleged that during the entire recruitment process, a section of the would-be teachers used to pay hefty sums to the TMC leadership, which used to be channelised to Partha Chatterjee, the then Education Minister.

The Calcutta High Court constituted a Committee that got wide evidence of irregularities and ordered removal of both Ganguly and Manik Bhattacharya from the post of the Chairman of the West Bengal Board of Secondary Education and the West Bengal Primary Teaching Council, respectively.It is alleged that during the pandemic-induced lockdown, when everything came to a standstill, several candidates gave ‘cut money’, which was channelised to then education minister Partha Chatterjee, and they were recruited illegally. 

In many cases, the academic scores of the undeserving candidates allegedly in lieu of money were hiked by the SSC authority. At the same time, many deserving candidates, who got more than the cut-off marks, were rejected ostensibly because the online submission of their documents was rejected.

West Bengal minister Partha Chatterjee, who is currently in the custody of the Enforcement Director (ED) in connection with the recruitment of teachers and staff in government-aided schools, can find himself in more trouble with the central agency claiming to find his involvement in alleged irregularities in appointment of teachers through Teacher Eligibility Test (TET) in 2014. The Calcutta High Court had ordered a CBI probe into the 2014 Primary Teacher Eligibility Test (TET) and dismissed 269 people who were recruited through the test. Chatterjee was then the state education minister. The seizure list of recoveries from Chatterjee’s house in Naktala indicates his involvement in the TET corruption too, said an ED official Meanwhile, Chatterjee’s official car, used by him for over 15 years, was deposited in the state Assembly. Chatterjee, also secretary general of the ruling Trinamool Congress, was allotted the car and a driver by the Assembly as the Leader of the Opposition in 2006.Proceeds worth over Rs 100 crore generated from the West Bengal SSC teachers' recruitment scam belong to Bengal's former education minister Partha Chatterjee, confirmed the adjudicating authority of the Prevention of Money Laundering Act at a special PMLA court in New Delhi on Wednesday.The adjudicating authority of the PMLA confirmed the findings of the Enforcement Directorate which found that the proceeds of crime around Rs 100 crore belong to Partha Chatterjee.The unaccounted money was found five days after the agency seized more than Rs 21 crore in cash, besides jewellery and foreign exchange from another flat of Arpita Mukherjee girlfried of ex education minister Partha chattargee, who was also arrested on July 23.The CBI, as directed by the Calcutta High Court, is looking into the alleged irregularities committed in the recruitment of Group-C and D staff as well as teachers in government-sponsored and aided schools on recommendations of the West Bengal School Service Commission. The ED is tracking the money trail in the scam. Subsequently, the central agency informed the court that they had found manipulation in the OMR sheets of 3,481 group C candidates, 2,823 group D candidates, 952 class IX-X assistant teacher candidates and 907 class XI-XII assistant teacher candidates. This included empanelled and waitlisted candidates and those who were neither empanelled nor waitlisted.

Justice Gangopadhyay had in a September 2022 order called upon appointed persons involved in illegal means to voluntarily resign to avoid stricter punishment.“Those persons know it very well that they have got service as a result of illegality and corruption… This court will expect that these persons will resign by 9th November, 2022 and if they do resign their matter will come to an end… This is an opportunity which is being given to those candidates who have got appointments illegally and those who will think rightly and resign will be treated as persons who are regretful for their acts but the persons who would not resign will be treated by this court very strictly,” Justice Gangopadhyay had written.

The court has ordered fresh counselling for recruitment in the vacant positions. While those in the waitlist will be called for such counselling, the waitlisted candidates whose OMR sheets have been found to be manipulated are not eligible.

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Bengal SSC Job Scam: Accused set fire to fake recruitment evidence, now CBI agents are sifting through the ashes. Bangladeshi SSC Job Scam News The Accused Burned Evidence Of Fake Recruitment As CBI Officials Investigate

Bengali SSC scam: The incident of burning important documents took place in the Bhangar area of ​​West Bengal on Tuesday. After getting information about this, CBI officials investigate the whole matter after arriving at the scene. Photo: Important documents set on fire, CBI agents sift the ashes. Image Credit source: Tv 9 Bharatvarsh Kolkata: West Bangladeshi teacher recruitment scam The CBI…

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Cancel jobs of 785 group C staff in schools: HC to SSC

THE CALCUTTA High Court on Friday directed the West Bengal School Service Commission (SSC) to cancel the jobs of 785 people serving in Group C posts in schools of the state. Justice Abhijit Gangopadhyay also asked the West Bengal Board of Secondary Education to cancel the jobs of 57 people who “got appointment letters without recommendation letters.”

The court directed that the recruitment process should be started from the waiting list within 10 days. Interestingly, Bristi Mukherjee — the daughter of a maternal cousin of Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee — is also on the waiting list. However, her father and Mamata’s cousin, Nihar Mukherjee, claimed that she resigned nearly two years ago.

Justice Gangopadhyay directed the SSC to issue a notification by noon on Saturday, cancelling the job recommendation letters of these 705 people. However, no order has been issued regarding the refund of salary of these employees. The court will consider the matter later.

According to sources, Bristi Mukherjee hails from Kusumba village of Birbhum district and was appointed “illegally” as a group C employee.

However, her father and Trinamool Congress district committee member, Nihar Mukherjee claimed, “She [Bristi] was intelligent in her education. But after getting the job, she did not even join. She never took a salary either.” He claimed, “She is a burns patient and right now, is admitted at a hospital.” Meanwhile, opposition parties hit out at the ruling TMC over the matter. CPI (M) leader Sujan Chakraborty said, “We have been saying that the Chief Minister’s family was involved in this scam. Now, the investigation has reached her family.”

BJP leader Samik Bhattacharya said, “How shameless is this government? It seems clear that everything is linked to her [CM].” The TMC did not immediately react on the matter.

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Bengal SSC scam: High court hears challenge petition, but fate of 803 teachers undecided

Division Bench reserves order; last week, judge asked that steps be taken to cancel appointments of 1,911 Group D school staff.

The West Bengal School Service Commission finds no reason to re-examine the Optical Marks Recognition (OMR) sheets -- whose digital records were seized from Ghaziabad by the CBI and sent to the Commission to ascertain recruitment fraud -- or question their authenticity since they were “identical replicas” of the original answer scripts which are now destroyed.

The submission was made by the Commission before the Division Bench of Justices Subrata Talukdar and Supratim Bhattacharya of the Calcutta High Court which kept its order in reserve after concluding the hearing of challenge petitions moved before the court by the aggrieved secondary school teachers whose appointments are all set to be revoked on the basis of an SSC affidavit submitted in court.

Last week, following the Commission’s admission of its “fault”, Justice Abhijit Ganguly set a one-week deadline and directed the SSC to initiate the termination process of 803 currently-employed teachers of classes IX and X whose appointments were given back in 2017 by means of answer script result manipulation. The plea of these teachers to be added as a party to the case and be allowed to defend themselves in court was rejected by Justice Biswajit Basu. Challenging both orders, the litigants moved the Division Bench and argued their case before the judges on Monday.

Based on the same SSC affidavit, Justice Ganguly has already passed an order on Friday to take appropriate steps to cancel appointments of 1911 Group D staff in schools whose OMR sheet results were found tampered with. Both SSC and the state secondary education board have subsequently notified the termination. The appeal petition against that order could not be heard by the Division Bench on Monday since the Single Bench order was yet to be uploaded on the court’s Website.

In September last year the CBI, which is probing the SCC recruitment scam on the Calcutta High Court’s orders, had seized hard disks containing digital records of the 2017 TET exam from the Ghaziabad office of NYSA Communications Pvt Ltd, which was among the companies responsible for OMR sheet evaluation. Although the Commission has, by its own protocol, already destroyed the original OMR sheets of the candidates in question a year of the exams were conducted, the CBI argued in court that the OMR records seized from Ghaziabad vastly differed from the digital records recovered from the Commission’s office in Salt Lake, Kolkata and that a large number of candidates had their marks enhanced in the latter. The commission accepted its “mistake” under an oath before the court, identified 952 such candidates out of which 803 are employed for over five years now, and recommended that the appointments under question be cancelled.

Counsels for aggrieved teachers argued that the Commission based its conclusion on “secondary evidence” since the original documents have been destroyed which should bring the basis of comparison of the records under judicial scrutiny. The principles of natural justice and civil consequences of the job-losers must be kept in mind and the Commission should be directed not to proceed any further on its termination process under Rule 17 of the Commission’s Act till all stakeholders are heard by the court.

“Destruction of the original documents doesn’t make the evidence weak since they were mirror images of the original ones with no scope of human intervention. We have sufficient grounds to believe that mistakes were made,” Dr Sutanu Patra, appearing for the Commission submitted and added there was no scope of hearing the eliminated candidates as per SSC rules. Read More On..

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Partha Chatterjee's Plea to Offer Prayers at Saraswati Puja Rejected

Last Updated: January 25, 2023, 11:39 IST File photo of TMC leader Partha Chatterjee. (Photo: ANI) Chatterjee, also the former Trinamool Congress secretary general, is currently serving his judicial custody at Presidency Central Correctional Home for his alleged involvement in the multi-crore teachers’ recruitment scam Former West Bengal Education minister Partha Chatterjee’s wish to offer…

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Recruitment scam: নিয়োগের দাবিতে এবার কিড স্ট্রিটে বিধায়কদের হস্টেলের সামনে  SLST চাকরিপ্রার্থীদের বিক্ষোভ | ABP Ananda LIVE

ABP Ananda Live: নিয়োগের দাবিতে এবার কিড স্ট্রিটে বিধায়কদের হস্টেলের সামনে  SLST চাকরিপ্রার্থীদের বিক্ষোভ। মেয়ো রোডে গান্ধী মূর্তির নীচে ৮৭১ দিনে পড়েছে নবম থেকে দ্বাদশ ২০১৬-র SLST চাকরিপ্রার্থীদের ধর্না। নিয়োগ নিয়ে বিধানসভায় বিধায়করা চুুপ কেন, প্রশ্ন তুলে এদিন কিড স্ট্রিটে এমএলএ হস্টেলের সামনে বিক্ষোভ দেখাচ্ছেন SLST চাকরিপ্রার্থীরা। Source link

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WB Teachers Recruitment Scam: প্রাথমিকে নিয়োগ দুর্নীতিতে ফোন নম্বর রহস্য, সিবিআই তদন্তের নির্দেশ হাইকোর্টের বিচারপতি।

WB Teachers Recruitment Scam: প্রাথমিকে নিয়োগ দুর্নীতিতে ফোন নম্বর রহস্য, সিবিআই তদন্তের নির্দেশ হাইকোর্টের বিচারপতি।

বহুদিন ধরে পশ্চিমবঙ্গের শিক্ষক নিয়োগ সংক্রান্ত দুর্নীতির (West Bengal Teachers recruitment Scam) সম্পর্কে মামলা চলছে। প্রাথমিক শিক্ষক নিয়োগে দুর্নীতি হয়েছে এমন অভিযোগে মামলা করা হয় হাইকোর্টে (High court)। সেই মামলায় এখনো রাজ্যের বহু হেভি ওয়েট ব্যক্তি জেলে রয়েছেন। একের পর এক ভুয়ো শিক্ষকের নাম এবং তাদের পরীক্ষার উত্তরপত্র (SSC OMR sheet) জনসমক্ষে আসছে। বহু শিক্ষকের চাকরি ভুয়ো, এই অভিযোগে…

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Bengal Ex-Minister's Judicial Custody Extended Till December 22 In Jobs Scam Case

Bengal Ex-Minister’s Judicial Custody Extended Till December 22 In Jobs Scam Case

In October, the CBI had filed a chargesheet against 12 persons. (File) Kolkata: A special court on Monday extended the judicial custody of former West Bengal education minister Partha Chatterjee till December 22 in connection with the West Bengal School Service Commission (WBSSC) recruitment ‘scam’. The former state education minister was produced in the CBI court, Alipore in connection with the…

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WBSSC scam: SC stays Calcutta HC order for CBI probe | India News

WBSSC scam: SC stays Calcutta HC order for CBI probe | India News

NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court on Friday stayed a Calcutta High Court division bench order, which upheld a single-judge’s direction for a CBI probe into the multi-crore West Bengal School Service Commission (WBSSC) recruitment scam. Senior advocate A.M. Singhvi, representing the West Bengal government, mentioned the matter before a bench headed by Chief Justice D.Y. Chandrachud that earlier this…

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Calcutta HC rejigs SIT, DIG to head team

Calcutta HC rejigs SIT, DIG to head team

Kolkata: The Calcutta High Court has removed two officers from the CBI Special Investigation Team ( SIT ) , which is probing the staff recruitment scam in West Bengal, and brought in four new investigators as members. It also appointed a DIG as its head. The case pertains to irregularities in the recruitment of Group C and Group D staff and teachers in government-run and aided schools by the…