Calcutta HC sets aside single bench order for CBI ‘enquiry’ – The Indian Express

The division bench, comprising justices Harish Tandon and Rabindranath Samanta, constituted a three-member special probe team, which will be overseen by a retired high court judge. The court directed the team to submit its report in two months.

The team comprises one member each from WBSSC, WBBSE and a practising lawyer at the high court and will be overseen by Justice (retired)
R K Bag.

On November 24, the division bench had stayed the single bench order for a CBI “enquiry” into the alleged irregularities in appointments for three weeks, after the state government moved the division bench challenging the single bench order.

On November 22, the single-judge bench of Justice Abhijit Gangopadhyay directed the CBI to hold a preliminary inquiry into the alleged irregularities in the appointments of Group D staff and submit a report by December 21.

Justice Abhijit Gangopadhyay passed the order while hearing a petition filed by some job aspirants claiming that the said appointments were made after the expiry of the panel set up to recruit for Group D posts in state-run schools.

In 2016, the state government had recommended the appointment of nearly 13,000 non-teaching staff in various state-run and government aided schools. Accordingly, the WBSSC had conducted examinations and interviews periodically and later a panel had been constituted. The term of the panel had ended in May, 2019.

The petitioners had produced before the court a list of 25 such appointees who they claimed were illegally recruited. They later claimed that more than 500 additional such appointments were made.