Justice Abhijit Gangopadhyay directed Bhattacharya, who is also an MLA of the ruling Trinamool Congress, to submit before the court the list of properties in the form of an affidavit by the next date of hearing on July 5.
Bhattacharya in his deposition said that he has his wife, son and daughter and gave an account of his assets that include residential properties in Kolkata and paternal property in his native village in Nadia district.
He also said that he was the principal of Jogesh Chandra Chowdhury College in the city till 2014 before he was appointed president of the state primary education board.
Bhattacharya was elected to the assembly from Palashipara constituency in Nadia district in the 2021 elections on a TMC ticket.
The primary education board on Tuesday preferred an appeal before a division bench of the high court challenging the single bench order directing a CBI probe into alleged illegalities in appointments of teachers as per a panel from Teachers’ Eligibility Test (TET), 2014.
A special investigation team of CBI was constituted on an order of the HC to probe the alleged illegal appointments.
Justice Gangopadhay has directed that the SIT will also investigate all the cases related to irregularities in recruitment of teaching and non-teaching staff in secondary schools in which CBI probes were earlier ordered by the court.
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