The Calcutta High Court on Tuesday completed the bail hearings of former West Bengal education minister Partha Chatterjee and four other ex-public servants in a CBI case over an alleged school jobs recruitment scam.

Justice Tapabrata Chakraborty reserved order on the bail prayers by former West Bengal School Service Commission (SSC) chairman Subires Bhattacharya, former state secondary education board president Kalyanmoy Ganguly, former chairman of SSC’s advisory committee S P Sinha and former secretary of State School Service Commission Ashok Saha, apart from Chatterjee.

Earlier, a division bench comprising justices Arijit Banerjee and Apurba Sinha Roy differed in their separate judgements on the bail prayers of the five accused persons. The matter was, thereafter, assigned to the single bench of Justice Chakraborty by the Chief Justice of the HC for adjudication.

The CBI opposed the bail prayers, claiming that though the investigation against the five in the alleged school jobs scam has been completed, the overall probe into the irregularities in recruitment is still going on.

The Supreme Court on last Friday had granted conditional bail to Partha Chatterjee in connection with the ED probe into the alleged teacher recruitment scam in the state.

— With PTI