Kolkata, May 12 (). A single bench of Justice Amrita Sinha of the Calcutta High Court has upheld the CBI probe into the multi-crore municipal corporation recruitment scam in West Bengal ordered by Justice Gangopadhyay’s bench.
Earlier, the Supreme Court had given an interim stay on Justice Gangopadhyay’s order for a CBI probe into the matter, which was unearthed by the Enforcement Directorate (ED) during its probe into the school recruitment scam.
Meanwhile, the state government had filed a review petition before Justice Sinha’s bench.
The petition came up for hearing on Friday before Justice Sinha’s bench. Justice Sinha dismissed the state government’s plea and allowed the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) to continue with the probe.
State Advocate General S.N. Mukherjee argued that the previous bench had ordered a CBI probe without hearing the state government.
Matters relating to the municipal corporation were not part of the subject matter of the court which ordered the CBI probe, he said. Besides, law and order is a state subject. That’s why the right to investigate it is also with the state police. But the state police was not given a chance in this matter.
Against this, it was argued in court that recruitment scams in government schools and municipal corporations in West Bengal are linked. That’s why there is a need for CBI inquiry in this matter also.
Justice Sinha, after hearing arguments from both sides, upheld Justice Gangopadhyay’s order for a CBI inquiry into the matter.
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