A view of the Calcutta High Court in Kolkata. file | Photo Credit: Sushant Petronobish
Nearly two weeks after the Supreme Court asked the Calcutta High Court to appoint a separate judge to hear certain cases related to the West Bengal school job scam, a new bench gave the same directions after hearing the matter. Justice Amrita Sinha on Friday dismissed a review application filed by the West Bengal government against Justice Abhijit Gangopadhyay’s order transferring the probe into irregularities in recruitment by municipalities to central investigative agencies.
Justice Sinha was hearing a matter titled State of West Bengal Vs. Soumen Nandy. Justice Gangopadhyay had on April 21 asked the central probe agencies to probe the matter Disturbances in municipal recruitment, Central agencies probing the school recruitment scam in West Bengal had found evidence of irregularities in recruitment in various municipalities during searches at the premises of the accused. The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) registered a separate FIR on 25 April based on the High Court’s order.
The Supreme Court had stayed the matter and told the Calcutta High Court that lawyers representing Trinamool Congress General Secretary Abhishek Banerjee had brought to the notice of the Supreme Court that Justice Gangopadhyay had given an interview to a television news channel. for case.
Justice Sinha has also refused to grant any relief to Trinamool leader Abhishek Banerjee; Justice Gangopadhyay had said Mr Banerjee could be questioned by the probe agencies.
Mr. Banerjee’s name had risen In a complaint filed by the arrested accused Kuntal Ghosh. Earlier this week, Justice Sinha had directed that Mr Banerjee be impleaded as a party in the matter. When lawyers representing Mr Banerjee on Friday expressed apprehension about any possible action by central agencies, the judge said the doors of the courts were always open. The matter relating to Mr Banerjee will be heard again on Monday (May 15).
Arguing before Justice Sinha, the lawyers representing Mr. Banerjee claimed that Justice Gangopadhyay was biased in the matter. Referring to the transfer of the matter to a different bench by the Supreme Court, he said the transfers were done in rare cases and do not add up. ,The glory of our traditions ”.