The CBI has formed a Special Task Force (STF) to speed up ongoing investigation of alleged teachers recruitment scam in West Bengal, a senior official of the probe body said on Monday. The team will reach city soon and begin probe into alleged scam, he said.
The STF will comprise seven senior officers - an SP, three DSPs, two inspectors and one SI drawn from New Delhi, Visakhapatnam, Ranchi, Dhanbad, Bhopal and Bhubaneswar.”With there being developments in the teachers’ recruitment scam in Bengal almost daily we need more officers to deal with that. We had written to Delhi headquarters recently and these officers will be joining the probe,” said a senior CBI official.
Former state minister Partha Chatterjee, who was arrested in July last year by Enforcement Directorate probing the money trail in the SSC recruitment scam for his alleged involvement in it, is currently in jail custody at Presidency correctional home. Several officers of education department and a couple of ruling Trinamool Congress leaders are also in custody for alleged involvement in scam.