School jobs scam: CBI visits Bengal secondary education board HQ, examines papers

As part of the ongoing court-monitored investigations into the “irregularities” in secondary school job recruitments by central agencies, CBI on Sunday visited the headquarters of West Bengal Board of Secondary Education (WBBSE) and examined some documents.

The central probe agency said its officer was at Nivedita Bhavan, the headquarters of the board, at Salt Lake township for around two hours in the afternoon and left with a few papers related to the alleged irregularities.

''We are trying to find out the answers about who has been appointed in some cases and how,'' a senior CBI officer said.

A senior WBBSE official told PTI that the board staff extended all cooperation to the agency.

“It was not that a CBI team raided our office. One CBI officer came, apparently as part of the ongoing probe, and went through some papers after unlocking a few rooms. He then left,'' the official said.

He said WBBSE stood for transparency in the system.

''Investigations are continuing and if there has been any irregularity in the past, the board will do whatever is asked by agencies to correct them. We have nothing else to comment on this,'' he said.

Several people were arrested by CBI and ED in connection with alleged irregularities in the recruitment of teaching and non-teaching staff in government-sponsored and –aided schools.

Former West Bengal education minister Partha Chatterjee, ex-School Service Commission (SSC) chairman Subiresh Bhattacharya, former SSC advisor Shanti Prasad Sinha and ex-WBBSE president Kalyanmoy Ganguly are among those arrested in connection with the case.

The CBI on Saturday questioned an official of the WBBSE in connection with the probe into the matter.

''We interrogated him based on information we got from Kalyanmoy Ganguly and today's search has links to the answers given by the official,'' the CBI officer said.

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