Teacher recruitment case: West Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee, nephew Abhishek train guns at judiciary

Mamata Banerjee criticizes Calcutta HC, faces petition for accusing judiciary. Abhishek alleges HC-BJP nexus, compares HC's actions to match-fixing. Bhattacharya submits evidence. Banerjee criticizes Abhijit Ganguly in Tamluk rally.
Teacher recruitment case: West Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee, nephew Abhishek train guns at judiciary
Mamata Banerjee
KOLKATA: A day after Mamata Banerjee called Calcutta high court a "mahatirtha (pilgrimage site)" for BJP while stressing that HC could have "given some other advice" in the cash-for-jobs case instead of scrapping the appointment of 25,757 people by SSC, the court on Thursday admitted a petition against the Bengal CM for "making accusations against the judiciary every day".

The petition was admitted on a day when Banerjee's nephew Abhishek alleged that a section of Calcutta HC was "in a nexus with BJP and is delivering verdicts based on BJP's instructions". At an election meeting in Purulia, Abhishek also spoke about Calcutta HC's Monday verdict scrapping the SSC's appointments."Those who are involved in match-fixing predict how bowling or batting would be done and that is what exactly happened. We knew about betting but it has been taken to another level by a section of Calcutta high court. BJP is betting and they are being backed by some of the judges," he said.
Moving the petition against Banerjee in HC, CPM neta and senior counsel Bikash Bhattacharya submitted newspaper clippings and a pen drive capturing Banerjee's speech in support of his claim. He urged the court to take suo motu cognizance of the matter.
At a rally in East Burdwan's Ausgram on Wednesday, Banerjee had said: "They cannot give jobs, but have taken away 26,000 teachers' jobs. BJP functionaries moved the court demanding these teachers' jobs be taken away. A BJP PIL is accepted the moment they (someone from the party) file it, but the court's doors are closed for others. I have never seen a situation like this."
On Thursday, while speaking at a rally in Tamluk, where former HC judge Abhijit Ganguly is the BJP candidate, Banerjee called him "a blot on the judiciary" and linked him to the current crisis involving the job loss. Tracing HC's ruling scrapping the jobs to Ganguly's tenure in the court, Banerjee said he was the first judge who signed an order leading to loss of jobs for people of Bengal. "You (Ganguly) have denigrated the status of the court," Banerjee said in Mahishadal.
"He takes away jobs at the drop of a hat. That great persona is the BJP's candidate here. Do you think you can get justice from someone who was talking to BJP while he was sitting on a judge's chair? He was already a BJP worker and openly abused other parties on live television," she added.
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