New Delhi: In one more blow to Mamata Banerjee, the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) on Monday arrested Trinamool Congress (TMC) MLA Jiban Krishna Saha within the West Bengal academics’ recruitment rip-off case. Saha, the TMC MLA from Burwan, was being interrogated by the premier investigating company since Friday, throughout which he had additionally managed to throw away his cell phones right into a pond when CBI sleuths have been at his residence. The CBI has alleged that he was the primary conduit who was allegedly amassing cash from the aspirants for the recruitment of academics for courses 9-10.
Jiban Krishna Saha is now the third TMC MLA after Partha Chatterjee and Manik Bhattacharya to be arrested by CBI through the ongoing probe. The rip-off is expounded to the recruitment in state-run and-aided faculties and is being probed by the central probe company on the directions of the Calcutta High Court.
Earlier on Sunday, the CBI fished out from a pond a cell phone of Jiban Krishna Saha, who was dealing with a marathon interrogation at his residence in West Bengal’s Bardhaman district. A CBI official stated that the TMC lawmaker had thrown his two cell phones into the pond adjoining to his home round 30 hours in the past and considered one of them was retrieved after pumping out all water from it. The second telephone, nonetheless, is but to be discovered.
Experts have been at work to retrieve the information saved within the recovered machine, the official added.
CBI officers seized a minimum of 5 luggage, stuffed with paperwork, from a rubbish dumping web site close to Saha’s residence, he stated.
A workforce of CBI sleuths on April 15 had additionally raided the home of former TMC block president Bibhas Adhikari in Birbhum district for his alleged involvement within the college job scandal. An ashram with which Adhikari is related was additionally raided in reference to the investigation, an official knowledgeable.
CBI officers additionally raided Adhikari’s locked flat within the Amherst Street space in Kolkata and seized papers from there.
Former Bengal minister Partha Chatterjee and his aides are at present in custody and are being probed within the rip-off.
