Leader of Opposition in instruct assembly Suvendu Adhikari claimed that better than 100 Trinamool MLAs (including some outmoded) worked as agents in the WBSSC recruitment scam and picked up money from candidates.

“In next 6-8 months, the collection of Trinamool MLAs will plod under 100 following the probe,” Adhikari’s claimed, two days after Union Dwelling Minister Amit Shah visited Bengal. At a time when Shah visited Bengal, Central Bureau of Investigations (CBI) intensified its raids in quite a lot of locations in Bengal from Friday in reference to WBSSC scam from Friday and conducted better than 50-hour long raid (till the time of reporting) in Trinamool MLA Jiban Krishna Saha’s place from Murshidabad’s Burwan Constituency and other persons. The agency recovered quite a lot of incriminating materials-predominant and upper lecturers recruitment associated paperwork containing the checklist of the candidates, pen drives, mobile phone and financial amounts mentioned in opposition to the names of candidates.

“I essentially devour worked with the Trinamool Congress for a few years, I’m in a position to direct at the least 100 MLAs (including some who devour not bought tickets in 2016) devour worked as agents of WBSSC scam in the studying sector. They’ve peaceable at the least 15-18 lakh from every candidate and round Rs 10 lakhs in every case has been sent to Kalighat and the comfort has been saved by them,” Adhikari alleged.
“In next 6-10 months, the total collection of Trinamool’s MLAs can be reduced under 100 in the instruct assembly,” Adhikari mentioned, hinting that the probe might possibly possibly well furthermore present extra MLAs. “The MLAs devour given jobs to their very maintain relatives and devour provided jobs in lieu of gargantuan amounts of money.”
Trinamool Congress chief and instruct minister Firhad Hakim mentioned, “Company does its work in Bengal independently unlike other states, and it’s not stopped here. If any individual has done nasty, court docket will attain it work and accused can be punished,”

Search is on at Trinamool MLA Jiban Krishna Saha’s house for better than 50 hours where round 3400 paperwork, associated to predominant, upper predominant, Class IX and X and admit cards, were recovered, folks in the know mentioned. These paperwork had been chanced on in five bags from the premises of Saha’s house.

“…whereas conducting the searches, 5 bags of paperwork had been recovered from bushes adjacent to the boundary wall of his place. The alleged paperwork affixed with pictures of aspiring candidates who had submitted bribe money had been recovered. It became alleged that the bribe peaceable from the candidates became estimated to be working into extra than one crores,” a CBI assertion confirmed.

“It became alleged that the accused (Saha) acted as conduit in collecting money from the candidates by promising them jobs in the studying department as lecturers in the recruitment route of of 1st SLST 2016 for ninth & 10th class. At some level of searches, quite a lot of incriminating materials including predominant & upper lecturers recruitment and paperwork containing the checklist of the candidates & amounts mentioned in opposition to them had been recovered,” CBI mentioned in an announcement.

Meanwhile, drama unfolded in Saha’s house on Friday as he threw his two mobile phones and pen drives into a pond adjacent to his house as CBI officers arrived in his house for search. It took at the least two days to web better one mobile phone, pumping out water from the pond after which digging into the mud under to acquire the mobile phone this day. Saha even threw bricks on Sunday to prove the place of the mobile phone, to reconstruct the occasion. 2d mobile phone is but to be chanced on.

The CBI on Saturday conducted searches at six places across West Bengal in reference to the lecturers’ recruitment scam case.

Other than MLA Saha’s house in Murshidabad, the central agency raided properties of alleged middleman Gopal Dalapati in East Midnapore and Bibhas Chandra Adhikary, chairperson of Thakur Anukul Chandra Satsang Mission Sadhanpith Trust in Birbhum. The CBI furthermore searched a flat of Adhikary in Kolkata. Adhikaryalso runs B.Ed and D.El.Ed colleges in Kolkata and Birbhum.

“It became alleged that the mentioned persons (Adhikary and Dalapaty) had acted as conduit between other accused and the aspiring candidates in collecting money from the candidates by promising them jobs as predominant lecturers in Major Lecturers Recruitment route of – 2016, an agency assertion mentioned.

On Saturday, in a marathon search, Bibhas Chandra Adhikary, Chairperson of Thakur Anukul Chandra Satsang Mission Sadhanpith Trust, his house and other premises had been searched. Adhikary became a outmoded Block President of Trinamool Congress.
“The searches had been conducted in 6 places in Kolkata, Purba Medinapur, Birbhum districts belonging to Adhikary and furthermore at the premises of Gopal Dalapati at Purba Medinipur. At some level of searches, quite a lot of incriminating materials including predominant lecturers recruitment had been recovered,” sources mentioned. Adhikary ran B.Ed and D.El.Ed colleges in Birbhum and Kolkata.

It became alleged that the mentioned persons had acted as conduit between other accused and the aspiring candidates in collecting money from the candidates by promising them jobs as predominant lecturers in Major Lecturers Recruitment route of – 2016, a CBI genuine mentioned.