In a major revelation the Central Bureau of Investigation on Monday told the Calcutta High Court how large scale rigging took place in the appointment to Group D posts in the State.
The revelations further smear the face of the Mamata Banerjee Government which has seen a number of senior ruling Trinamool Congress politicians including Ministers, MLAs and top officials including a sitting Vice-Chancellor going to jail in connection with the school level recruitment tests conducted by the School Services Commission. The CBI which is also investigating the SSC scam —involving the recruitment of teachers and Group C employees — told the High Court how a massive rigging had taken place in the appointments to 21,000 posts.
The central Agency has found in its investigation that the recruiters had tampered with 9,000 OMR sheets most of which have been destroyed.
The CBI also told that there was imprint of large-scale bungling in the entire appointment process --- from appointment panel to waiting list to the merit list, lawyers present in the court said adding the single Bench of Justice V Basu told the CBI to go ahead with its work and the Court would see that no single culprit in the scam was spared.
The Agency informed the Court that in order to hide the massive
irregularities the hard disk of the original computer of the SSC through which the appointments were made had been kept hidden at Ghaziabad in Uttar Pradesh. The recovery and analysis of the hidden data had revealed many shocking information about the scam, the Agency told the Court.
In a related development the CBI is likely to submit a second chargesheet in the teacher recruitment scam, sources said adding the chargesheet would contain more explosive information about the scam.