SC rejects appeals by Abhishek Banerjee, wife against ED summons in teacher recruitment scam

The Supreme Court on Monday rejected the appeals by Trinamool Congress MP Abhishek Banerjee and his wife Rujira Banerjee against the Enforcement Directorate's summons in an alleged scam related to teachers’ recruitment in West Bengal, reported Live Law.

A bench of Justices Bela Trivedi and Satish Chandra Sharma had reserved the judgement on August 13.

The case pertains to jobs being allegedly given to candidates in return for money instead of those who had qualified in the recruitment process in 2019. A dozen officials of the state education department, including former minister Partha Chatterjee, have been arrested in the case.

While the Central Bureau of Investigation is looking into the criminal aspect of the scam, the Enforcement Directorate is investigating the money trail involved in the alleged irregularities in the recruitment in schools.