Kolkata 11 August : A special CBI court on Thursday sent two former officials of West Bengal School Service Commission (WBSSC) who were detained in connection with the multi-crore teacher recruitment scam to seven days CBI custody for seven days.On Wednesday night Wednesday evening, the CBI had arrested the former convener of WBSSC’s special screening panel, Santi Prasad Sinha, and the former secretary of the commission, Ashok Saha.
They were brought before the special CBI court on Thursday, and the court remanded them in seven-day custody of the central investigation agency.
The CBI counsel told the court Sinha and Saha in addition to being the chiefs of the scam to recruit, deleted crucial information from the database of the commission.
According to the CBI counsel, the information will be vital for the agency to determine those influential individuals whom illegal recruitments were based on disregarding the merits list.
As Saha and Sinha are able to provide crucial details regarding the data they’ve destroyed The CBI had to question the two while in custody the counsel for the central agency claimed.
The CBI counsel also told the court that Saha as well as Sinha did not cooperate with the CBI investigators during the course of interrogation.
Sinha’s lawyer claimed that the client was an ordinary employee of the state government and that he was deliberately misrepresented in the trial.He argued because Sinha’s client has a number of problems related to his age, he should be granted bail.
Sinha as well as Saha were among the first two people taken into custody by the CBI in connection with the WBSSC scam.
Prior to that the Enforcement Directorate (ED), which is investigating the money-trail aspect in this scam arrested the former West Bengal Education Minister Partha Chatterjee and his assistant Arpita Mukherjee in connection with the investigation.
Both Chatterjee and Mukherjee are currently in the custody of the judicial system.
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