Trinamool Congress leader and West Bengal minister Partha Chatterjee (File)
A single bench of the Calcutta High Court on Tuesday directed former West Bengal education minister Partha Chatterjee to present himself before the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) by 5.30 pm in connection with a corruption case involving the school education department. However, soon after, a division bench of the high court issued a stay on the order.
The high court had earlier ordered a CBI investigation into alleged “irregularities” in the Group D and assistant teacher recruitment process of the state school education department, following which the agency interrogated a deputy director of the school education directorate and a private secretary of Chatterjee.
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In its order, the single-judge bench of Justice Abhijit Gangopadhyay said Tuesday that the minister cannot go to SSKM or any other hospital before heading to the CBI office and it informed the central agency that it may arrest the TMC leader, if necessary.
Chatterjee’s lawyer soon approached a division bench of the high court seeking a stay on the order which was granted by the double bench of Justices Subrata Talukder and Anand Kumar Mukherjee.
Atri Mitra is a Special Correspondent of The Indian Express with more than 20 years of experience in reporting from West Bengal, Bihar and the North-East. He has been covering administration and political news for more than ten years and has a keen interest in political development in West Bengal.
Atri holds a Master degree in Economics from Rabindrabharati University and Bachelor's degree from Calcutta University. He is also an alumnus of St. Xavier's, Kolkata and Ramakrishna Mission Asrama, Narendrapur.
He started his career with leading vernacular daily the Anandabazar Patrika, and worked there for more than fifteen years. He worked as Bihar correspondent for more than three years for Anandabazar Patrika. He covered the 2009 Lok Sabha election and 2010 assembly elections. He also worked with News18-Bangla and covered the Bihar Lok Sabha election in 2019. ... Read More
