KOLKATA: Trinamool Congress minister Partha Chatterjee filed a Special Leave Petition (SLP) in the Supreme Court on Thursday seeking protection against coercive steps by CBI during investigation into the “massive irregularities” in appointments in state-aided schools. The apex court is likely to hear it on Friday.
Chatterjee stated in the SLP that complainants who had moved the Calcutta High Court so far didn’t mention him as a respondent. The respondent was always the ‘State of West Bengal’. Despite that, Chatterjee claimed, a single bench of Calcutta High Court directed him to appear for CBI questioning while hearing another petition on irregular appointments of Group D staff in state-aided schools.
Justice Abhijit Gangopadhyay also allowed CBI to take Chatterjee in custody, if necessary, if he didn’t cooperate with it during questioning.
