West Bengal Minister Partha Chatterjee change into arrested by the Enforcement Directorate (ED) in Kolkata on Saturday over his alleged involvement in the instructor recruitment scam.
Chatterjee, who change into the voice education minister when the scam allegedly took plot, change into arrested after spherical 26 hours of grilling in reference to the probe. He has been charged below the provisions of the Prevention of Cash Laundering (PMLA) Act.
After raids at multiple locations on Friday, the ED said that it had recovered about Rs 20 crore from Arpita Mukherjee, a shut associate of TMC heavyweight Partha Chatterjee.
“At some stage all over searches, the ED has recovered extensive money amounting to roughly Rs 20 crore from the residential premises of Arpita Mukherjee, who’s a shut associate of Shri Partha Chatterjee. The said amount is suspected to be proceeds of crime of the SSC Scam,” an ED assertion said.
Nevertheless what is the SSC scam? Read on to discover:
- The West Bengal College Provider Price (SSC) issued a notification for appointment of lecturers in voice-urge colleges in West Bengal through Declare Stage Different Take a look at (SLST) in 2014. The recruitment direction of started in 2016. Nevertheless, a series of petitions were filed in the Calcutta High Courtroom alleging anomalies in the recruitment direction of.
- The petitioners alleged that many examinees who bought much less marks ranked high in the advantage checklist. There were additionally allegations that some applicants, who weren’t even in the advantage checklist, got appointment letters.
- In the second case, the West Bengal executive had, in 2016, issued a notification to the SSC to recruit 13,000 Community-D workers for voice-urge/aided colleges. In 2019, the panel making the appointments had expired, however no no longer up to 25 contributors were allegedly appointed by the WBBSE.
- All over a listening to, the petitioners claimed that no longer correct 25 however over 500 of us were appointed after the SSC panel expired, they customarily were now drawing salaries from the voice executive.
- A CBI probe change into launched in the case following an uncover by the Calcutta High Courtroom bench of Justice Abhijit Gangopadhyay. The appointment of 269 critical faculty lecturers in Bengal executive-subsidized and -aided colleges has been termed to be unlawful, as it has been alleged by the petitioners that these candidates did no longer qualify the Academics Eligibility Take a look at (TET).
- In its FIR, the CBI alleged that in the critical desire direction of of TET, 2O14 the inquire of paper and its review direction of were finished dubiously as contaminated questions and or respond keys were designed in a disguised manner for depriving the eligible candidates.
- It is extra alleged most likely the most most TETs fail and/or ineligible candidates of TET 2014 bought appointments as Assistant lecturers in critical colleges. A desire of ineligible candidates who did no longer respond the inquire of by answering the MCQ and submitted blank exam papers only pointing out their inside of most particulars bought appointments as Assistant Academics.
- The CBI has additionally alleged that an extra panel change into created in a doubtful manner and a few different contributors who did no longer even pass TET-2014 were incorporated in the extra panel. Your complete desire direction of clearly reveals favouritism and nepotism in the desire direction of, it says.
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