The infamous school jobs for cash scam pertains to various illegal recruitments allegedly made in the primary and secondary schools across the State during the recruitment process of 2016.
Over 23 lakh candidates had appeared in the examinations for the 24,000 job vacancies in 2016. It had been alleged before the High Court that most candidates were given jobs after wrongly evaluating the OMR Sheets.
The High Court Bench of Justices Debangsu Basak and Md Shabbar Rashidi noted that there was no clarity which of the 23 lakh answer sheets were evaluated properly and therefore, ordered re-evaluation of all the sheets of the recruitment entrance exams while cancelling the appointments made.
It also ordered the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) to continue with the investigation into the recruitment scam.
Several persons including the former education minister Partha Chatterjee and Trinamool Congress (TMC) party MLAs Manik Bhattacharya and Jiban Krishna Saha are behind bars for their alleged involvement in the scam along with suspended TMC leaders like Santanu Kundu and Kuntal Ghosh.
Source: Barandbench
