Supreme Court directs Bengal govt to grant sanction for prosecuting TMC leader Partha Chatterjee, others in the cash-for-jobs scam

The Supreme Court on Thursday directed the West Bengal government to grant sanction for prosecuting TMC leader and former education minister of the state Partha Chatterjee and others accused in the cash-for-jobs scam in the state.

Partha Chatterjee and Trinamool Congress MLAs Manik Bhattacharya and Jiban Krishna Saha are among the accused being probed in the recruitment scam.

The case stemmed from alleged irregularities in the 2016 recruitment process conducted by the West Bengal SSC, in which 23 lakh candidates appeared for 24,640 posts and a total of 25,753 appointment letters were issued. The apex court had called it a "systemic fraud".

(With PTI inputs)