Calcutta HC rejects Abhishek Banerjee’s plea on not being included in teacher recruitment scam probe questioning

Ghosh is now in CBI custody in connection with alleged irregularities in the recruitment in West Bengal government-sponsored and -aided schools.

With the dismissal of the plea to recall the previous Calcutta High Court order, the CBI and ED may, if they so wish, interrogate Abhishek, also the nephew of Trinamool Congress supremo Mamata Banerjee, in connection with their probe into the teacher recruitment case.

The TMC leader’s name cropped up in a complaint filed by Ghosh, who alleged in it, that he was being pressured by central investigating agencies to name Abhishek Banerjee in the recruitment case.

Justice Abhijit Gangopadhyay, in his order on April 13, said that accused Kuntal Ghosh could be questioned by the central agencies along with Abhishek Banerjee.

Banerjee, the TMC MP from Diamond Harbour, had moved the apex court challenging the order and his lawyers referred to an interview by Justice Gangopadhyay to a news channel, in which he allegedly spoke against the TMC leader.

Based on the order by the Supreme Court on April 28, the then acting chief justice of the Calcutta High Court reassigned two cases – Soumen Nandy versus the State of West Bengal and Ramesh Malik versus State of West Bengal, from the court of Justice Gangopadhyay to that of Justice Sinha.