KOLKATA, (IANS): The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) on Saturday filed at a
special court in Kolkata its third supplementary charge sheet in connection
with the multi-crore cash for school jobs case in West Bengal.
The Enforcement Directorate (ED), which is conducting a
parallel probe into the school job case, has already filed a total of five
charge sheets in the matter.
However, at a special PMLA court in Kolkata, the process
of framing charges in the ED-registered case had been postponed repeatedly as
the prime accused in the case, Sujay Krishna Bhadra, failed to appear
physically in the court, reportedly because of his hospitalisation.
On Saturday, sources aware of the development said that
the CBI had also received the permission from the office of West Bengal
Governor C.V. Ananda Bose to file the chargesheet against the former West
Bengal education minister and Trinamool Congress secretary general Partha
Chatterjee, a process which is mandatory for a court to officially accept the
charge sheet filed against any member of the state Cabinet.
Sources said that with the event of getting the nod for
filing the chargesheet against Chatterjee, docks are cleared for beginning the
process of charge framing against him in the CBI-registered case in the alleged
school job scam.
Chatterjee was first arrested in July 2022 by ED
officials in July 2022 after huge cash and gold were recovered from the twin
residences of his close aide Arpita Mukherjee by the investigating officials.
Since then, Chatterjee has been behind bars at Presidency
Central Correctional Home in South Kolkata, though Mukherjee was released on
conditional bail recently.
Recently, the CBI had also shown him arrested in the same
school job thus making his release from behind bars even more uncertain.
Meanwhile, the total confiscation amount by the
Enforcement Directorate has reached Rs 239.26 crore so far in the
cash-for-school-job case in West Bengal.
