The Supreme Court has granted bail to the middleman arrested in the state teacher recruitment corruption case. ‘middlemen’ Prasanna Kumar Roy Is. CBI investigation revealed that Prasanna also had a role in the corruption in SSC recruitment in providing jobs to ineligible people. Two people got bail in the recruitment case. Earlier, Manik Bhattacharya’s wife Shatarupa Bhattacharya was granted bail by the Calcutta High Court in the primary recruitment case. However, she was the first person to get bail in the SSC recruitment case.
Prasanna was close to Shantiprasad Singh, head of the SSC recruitment advisory committee.
Prasanna was close to Shantiprasad Singh, head of the SSC Recruitment Advisory Committee. It was also said that he was in touch with former state education minister Partha Chatterjee during the recruitment corruption investigation. The CBI got his name while investigating two cases related to recruitment corruption. Prasanna, accused in the Group D recruitment case and the ninth and tenth teacher recruitment case, has also been arrested by the CBI. However, despite being arrested, the trial against Prasanna has not started till date. When no action was taken even after a certain period had passed after the charge sheet was issued, Prasanna even approached the Supreme Court regarding this matter. Bail application filed. Senior lawyer Mukul Rohatgi and lawyer Anirban Guha Thakurta fought the case on his behalf. The Supreme Court announced its decision on Friday.
Prasanna was arrested in 2022
Prasanna Roy’s lawyer Anirvan said that the arrest was made in 2022. Charge sheet was also issued. But despite this, no importance was given to that charge sheet. No case could be initiated. The result is that these accused are not able to know what are the allegations against them in the charge sheet. That is injustice. We informed the judge about the matter. During the hearing, the judge told the CBI, “You kept all these businessmen out of the house.” Why have they been detained? In the hearing, CBI said that he has been detained for investigation. In response, the judge asked, then what was the CBI doing for so many days? Ultimately Prasanna got bail.