Kolkata: In a major embarrassment for the Bengal Government it suffered two adverse orders in the Calcutta High Court — both involving petitions seeking CBI investigations — on Monday.
In the first case the Court handed over the investigation of Tapan Kandu murder case to CBI. Tapan Kandu a Congress councillor from Jhalda municipality in Purulia district was murdered last month. A Special Investigation Team formed by the State Government was probing the case and had concluded that the murder was the result of a family dispute.
However the wife of the victim claimed that the murder had political angle because the deceased was under pressure to join the TMC to help form the municipal Board at a time when the Congress and TMC had got equal number of seats in the House.
Purnima Kandu the victim’s wife claimed that the local police Inspector-in-Charge had a hand in the murder as he had repeatedly threatened Kandu to join the TMC.
In the second case a single Bench of the High Court directed the CBI to question four members of the School Service Commission in a case related to irregularities in appointment of Group D employees. A subsequent appeal by the Members in Division Bench went unheard as none of the Division Benches admitted the matter leaving the petitioners at the mercy of the single Bench order.
The State Government had been under immense pressure for the past several years with hundreds of petitioners being filed in the High Court questioning the irregularities in appointments to both school teachers’ and Group D posts. (Agencies)
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