Two days after the Calcutta Excessive Courtroom ordered the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) to hold out a preliminary probe into alleged irregularities in lecturers’ recruitment in colleges underneath the Gorkhaland Territorial Administration (GTA) within the hill districts of West Bengal, the state police on Thursday registered an FIR towards former GTA chairperson Binay Tamang, former state training minister Partha Chatterjee, and state president of Trinamool Chhatra Parishad (TMCP) Trinankur Bhattacharya amongst a number of others.
The Bidhannagar Police registered the FIR on a grievance lodged by the state Faculty Schooling Division on Wednesday.
That is the primary time that the police have registered an FIR on a grievance lodged by the state division in an alleged “recruitment rip-off”, sources stated.
The FIR additionally named the then Faculty Inspector Pranagovinda Sarkar and other people thought of near the ruling TMC similar to Prantik Chakraborty, Bubai Bose, and Devalina Das.
“It’s good if the state (authorities) is conducting a probe. I’ll cooperate in all potential methods. Let the reality come out,” TMCP chief Trinankur Bhattacharya stated when requested concerning the case being lodged towards him.
On Tuesday, whereas directing the CBI to conduct an preliminary inquiry into the allegations levelled by a authorities official in a letter to him, Justice Biswajit Basu of the Calcutta Excessive Courtroom had pulled up the Bidhannagar Police for allegedly not performing on the grievance despatched to it earlier and sought an affidavit from the police in addition to the GTA inside 15 days. The court docket additionally requested the CBI to submit a preliminary probe report inside two weeks.