Kolkata, May 16 (). The hearing on Trinamool Congress national general secretary Abhishek Banerjee’s plea for relief from the purview of the CBI probe into the alleged teacher recruitment scam in West Bengal was completed in the Calcutta High Court on Tuesday afternoon. However, the single bench of Justice Amrita Sinha reserved the judgement.
Following a Supreme Court order, 2 cases related to this matter were recently transferred from Justice Abhijit Gangopadhyay’s bench to Justice Sinha’s bench. Abhishek Banerjee’s name surfaced in this case following a letter from Kuntal Ghosh, another accused and expelled youth TMC leader, of an alleged recruitment scam.
He had written to a local police station as well as a trial court judge, accusing central agencies of pressurizing them to name Banerjee in the alleged scam. Enforcement Directorate (ED) counsel Dheeraj Trivedi, who is conducting a parallel probe in the case, argued in the court on Tuesday that Ghosh sent the letters in violation of all jail codes.
Trivedi said the letter was first sent to the trial court judge. Before the case was settled in the lower court, a copy of the same letter was sent to the local police station. This cannot be done legally.
In response to this, the counsel for Kuntal Ghosh said that his client had not impleaded the case in spite of so many developments in the matter regarding the letters written by him. Both the CBI and the ED on Tuesday submitted their respective progress reports on the probe in sealed covers to the court.
During the hearing last week, Justice Sinha questioned the reasons for the reluctance of the petitioner to face investigation in the matter. The petitioner should cooperate with the investigation process, no one is above investigation.
Justice Sinha had said let the probe agency decide who is included and who is not. The legal system is at the top. Everyone should cooperate in the process of investigation.
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