KOLKATA: A committee appointed by the Calcutta High Court to probe irregularities in school recruitment has found the five-member panel set up by the education department to oversee the appointments “not valid under the law” and has blamed the panel members for the illegal appointments in Group D posts.
The committee, which submitted its report to the HC division bench of Justices Subrata Talukdar and Justice Ananda Kumar Mukherjee on Monday, also wondered about the panel’s accountability and its relationship with the then Partha Chatterjee-led education department.
The committee, led by retired HC judge Ranjit Kumar Bag, recommended filing of FIRs under sections of cheating, forgery and criminal act with common intent against West Bengal Board of Secondary Education (WBBSE) president Kalyanmoy Ganguly, former School Service Commission(SSC) adviser and convenor of the state panel Santi Prasad Sinha, the other members of the panel and the 609 candidates who were appointed even though they were not eligible.
The report said SSC programme officer Samarjit Acharya prepared the “fake recommendation letters” in collaboration with the panel members.
