The High Court had earlier ordered a CBI probe into the alleged irregularities in the Group D and assistant teacher recruitment process of the state school education department.
Kolkata: Moments after a single-judge bench of the Calcutta High Court asked former West Bengal education minister Partha Chatterjee to be present before the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) by 5:30 pm on Tuesday in connection with a corruption case involving the school education department, a division bench issued a stay order.
The High Court had earlier ordered a CBI probe into the alleged irregularities in the Group D and assistant teacher recruitment process of the state school education department. The central agency had questioned a deputy director of the school education directorate and a private secretary of Chatterjee.
On Tuesday, the single-judge bench of Justice Abhijit Gangopadhyay had said that the minister “cannot go to SSKM or any other hospital before heading to the CBI office” and asked the central agency to arrest the Trinamool Congress leader, if necessary.
Later, when Chatteejee’s lawyer approached a division bench of Justices Subrata Talukder and Anand Kumar Mukherjee, the court granted a stay on the order of the single-judge bench.