CBI summons TMC’s Abhishek in school recruitment case
Hindustan TimesThe Central Bureau of Investigation on Friday summoned Trinamool Congress MP Abhishek Banerjee for questioning on Saturday in connection with the multi-crore School Service Commission recruitment scam, triggering a sharp reaction from West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee who alleged the Bharatiya Janata Party was misusing investigating agencies against opposition parties. CBI is probing alleged irregularities in the recruitment of Group C and Group D staff, as well as teachers, in government- Three TMC legislators, including former education minister Partha Chatterjee, under whose tenure the alleged irregularities took place, have been arrested so far in the case. On Thursday, the Calcutta high court allowed CBI and ED to quiz Abhishek whose name cropped up after Kuntal Ghosh, one of the arrested persons and the prime accused in the case, alleged that central agencies are pressuring him to implicate the former. While Abhishek said he will extend “full cooperation during the course of the investigation”, he also dared CBI to arrest him.