Friday, Jul 26, 2024 00:00 [IST]
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KOLKATA, (IANS): The West Bengal Board of Primary
Education (WBBPE), on Thursday afternoon approached the Calcutta High Court
challenging an earlier order directing it to bear the expenses for hiring IT
experts to aid the CBI in recovering deleted Optical Mark Recognition (OMR)
sheet data.
The
OMR sheets were used in the written examination for recruitment of primary
teachers in West Bengal-run schools.
Earlier
the Board had sent a note to the CBI expressing its inability to bear the
expenditure of hiring the IT experts.
The
WBBPE has also approached a Division Bench headed by Justice Harish Tandon
challenging the earlier order on this count by the Bench of Justice Rajasekhar
Mantha on July 5.
Immediately
after the order from Justice Mantha, CBI officials took the help of independent
cyber experts and conducted marathon raids at the office of S Basu Roy
& Company, the agency responsible for providing the OMR sheets.
The
CBI officials seized 34 electronic gadgets from the office of S Basu Roy
& Company.
Meanwhile,
earlier this month, the WBBPE informed Justice Mantha that the OMR sheets used
in the written examinations in 2014, 2016 and 2017 were destroyed following the
instructions of Trinamool Congress legislator and former WBBPE President Manik
Bhattacharya unilaterally.