The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) sleuths probing the cash-for-school job case in West Bengal have secured crucial clues. Recommendations for appointments were made not only on paper but also sent via WhatsApp or SMS and were considered by the authorities concerned. All these recommendations made in writing or through digital communications, were personally scrutinized and shortlisted by the former state education minister and former Trinamool Congress secretary general Partha Chatterjee. The details of all such recommendations have been mentioned in the annexures attached with the charge sheet filed by the central agency on this count. The CBI, through such attachments, has already submitted to the special court in Kolkata a list of 324 candidates who were recommended by different influential individuals, including former and present MLAs and MPs for selections. It is alleged that the ill-proceeds were shown as donations to this particular trust and thus diverted. The former education minister is currently under treatment at a private hospital in K Bengal following a reported deterioration in his medical condition.
