Kolkata: A special CBI court finally framed charges against former West Bengal Education Minister Partha Chatterjee and 20 others in the alleged multi-crore teachers recruitment irregularities in state-owned schools across the state, court sources said today.
Besides Chatterjee, now in jail, the final charges have been framed against ex-junior education Paresh Chandra Adhikari, his daughter Ankita Adhikari and former West Bengal Schools Service Commission top officials Subiresh Bhattacharya, Kalyanmoy Gangopadhyay, and other officials in the Class XI and XII teachers recruitment scam case, which the CBI probe following a Calcutta High Court directive.
The charges were framed yesterday in the CBI special court at Alipore and the trial would begin soon, court sources added.
They said the court framed charges against Partha Chatterjee and 21 others.
The allegation against the ministers and WBSSC officials was that they recruited incompetent candidates as teachers for cash and denied the qualified aspirants. The Supreme Court on April 3 last upheld a Calcutta High Court order affecting 26,000 teachers.
Among prominent names charged also included former head of WBSSC screening committee Santa Prasad Singh, former WBSSC secretary, Ashok Saha, and former WBSSC staff Samarjit Acharya and Parna Basu.
