SSC scam of `alarming magnitude': CBI

The CBI report mentioned 952 aspirants had landed jobs in Class IX and X illegally, while the numbers stood at 907 for XI and XII for those illegal aspirants.

SNS,  KOLKATA, 28 SEPTEMBER 2022 : While the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) in a startling revelation to Calcutta High Court today claimed that a "scam of an alarming magnitude" has taken place in the SSC. 

The beleaguered School Service Commission for the first time, bowing to the unrelenting pressure, fill ally conceded that a scam related to recruitment of teachers for Classes IX, X. XI and XII had indeed taken place. 

In four separate progress reports for entrance mains for higher secondary teachers, secondary teachers, Group C staff and Group D staff, the CBI detailed as to how lower marks ranging from "zero to five" were changed to higher marks ranging from "50 to 53" in the commission's server.

The CB1 sleuths also maintained how some candidates, who even submitted blank answer-sheets or with answers to only a couple of questions, were granted higher marks of above 50 with the clear intention of accommodating ineligible candidates against some consideration. The CBI reports said that the marks of 907 candidates for higher secondary teachers' posts were manipulated, while the figures for secondary teachers stood at 952. The numbers on the same count in case of Group C and Group D staff were much higher, at 3,481 and 2,823, respectively, as per the CBI reports. 

This along with the CBI claims in the court of a scam to an "alarming magnitude" which the central agency claimed to have been substantiated through the forensic test of the hard discs that revealed that numbers like 0,1, and 2 in the original score sheet had been manipulated to 50, 51 and 52 in the server, prompted justice Abhijit Gangopadhyay to issue a deadline of 7 November, asking those beneficiaries of cash-for-job scam to either relinquish their jobs voluntarily or face stern consequences. 

The CBI report mentioned 952 aspirants had landed jobs in Class IX and X illegally, while the numbers stood at 907 for XI and XII for those illegal aspirants. Justice Gangopadhyay also said that the magnitude of the scam had "rattled" him and wanted to know at whose instruction such an act had taken place, a source claimed.