IAS Officer, Private Firm Booked In Final CBI hargesheet Into WB municipal jobs Scam
The IAS officer was summoned and questioned by another central agency, Enforcement Directorate, in the same scam earlier. The private firm is ABS Infozone. It belongs to Ayon Shil who was earlier arrested in the school jobs scam for OMR sheet tampering.
Kolkata: The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) has booked a serving IAS officer and a private firm in its final chargesheet submitted at the Alipore Court in the city on Friday into the municipal recruitment scam under the Trinamul Congress rule in West Bengal.
The accused bureaucrat, Jyotishman Chatterjee, was posted as director at the directorate of local bodies in the municipal affairs department during the scam, according to the CBI. He is posted as a secretary at the Hooghly River Bridge Commissioners at present.
The IAS officer was summoned and questioned by another central agency, Enforcement Directorate, in the same scam earlier. The private firm is ABS Infozone. It belongs to Ayon Shil who was earlier arrested in the school jobs scam for OMR sheet tampering.
The CBI alleged in the final chargesheet that more than 600 people were illegally recruited in eight municipalities including North Dum Dum, South Dum Dum, Kamarhati, and Baranagar.
Interestingly, the final CBI chargesheet does not contain any politician's name though many TMC leaders including state fire and emergency services minister Sujit Bose faced raids at their houses in the case.
Earlier, the central agency filed a charge sheet against former chairman of the South Dum Dum Municipality, Panchu Gopal Roy, in the same scam. On April 21 in 2023 the then judge of the Calcutta High Court, Justice Abhijit Gangopadhyay ordered the CBI probe into the scam.
The Mamata Banerjee government however challenged the order at the Supreme Court which sent back the matter to the HC for hearing by Justice Amrita Sinha after issuing an interim stay. Justice Sinha later upheld the CBI probe order.
