<p>After being questioned for nearly three days – 65 hours – the <a href="https://www.deccanherald.com/tag/central-bureau-of-investigation" target="_blank">Central Bureau of Investigation</a> (CBI) arrested <a href="https://www.deccanherald.com/tag/trinamool-congress" target="_blank">Trinamool</a> MLA Jiban Krishna Saha, in a probe concerning the irregularities in recruitment of teachers in the state’s schools. Saha’s arrest succeeds the arrest of two other MLAs in the past – Partha Chatterjee, and Manik Bhattacharya.</p>.<p>On production in the court, Saha was sent to a four-day CBI custody.</p>.<p>The searches concerning the MLA from Burwan constituency were being conducted since Friday, and he was questioned a number of times. During the searches at his residence, five bags full of documents were recovered in the bushes, adjacent to the boundary wall of his residence’s premises. </p>.<p>The documents with photographs, allegedly, were of the aspiring candidates who had submitted bribes, estimated to be running in crores of rupees, and the agency is continuing its investigation.</p>.<p>Saha, allegedly, had thrown two cellphones into the pond, adjacent to his house, later recovered by the agency, after a consistent search.</p>.<p>The recruitment scam, and the following probe, has shaken the regional politics – with the ruling party, and the leading one in Opposition pointing fingers at each other. </p>.<p>Several accused, including Chatterjee, the former education minister, are in jail for their alleged role in the scam where jobs were promised and provided in the government-run schools, and irregular appointments, allegedly, were preferred over the merit of the candidates for financial return.</p>
<p>After being questioned for nearly three days – 65 hours – the <a href="https://www.deccanherald.com/tag/central-bureau-of-investigation" target="_blank">Central Bureau of Investigation</a> (CBI) arrested <a href="https://www.deccanherald.com/tag/trinamool-congress" target="_blank">Trinamool</a> MLA Jiban Krishna Saha, in a probe concerning the irregularities in recruitment of teachers in the state’s schools. Saha’s arrest succeeds the arrest of two other MLAs in the past – Partha Chatterjee, and Manik Bhattacharya.</p>.<p>On production in the court, Saha was sent to a four-day CBI custody.</p>.<p>The searches concerning the MLA from Burwan constituency were being conducted since Friday, and he was questioned a number of times. During the searches at his residence, five bags full of documents were recovered in the bushes, adjacent to the boundary wall of his residence’s premises. </p>.<p>The documents with photographs, allegedly, were of the aspiring candidates who had submitted bribes, estimated to be running in crores of rupees, and the agency is continuing its investigation.</p>.<p>Saha, allegedly, had thrown two cellphones into the pond, adjacent to his house, later recovered by the agency, after a consistent search.</p>.<p>The recruitment scam, and the following probe, has shaken the regional politics – with the ruling party, and the leading one in Opposition pointing fingers at each other. </p>.<p>Several accused, including Chatterjee, the former education minister, are in jail for their alleged role in the scam where jobs were promised and provided in the government-run schools, and irregular appointments, allegedly, were preferred over the merit of the candidates for financial return.</p>