Kolkata: Former West Bengal Education Minister and Trinamool Congress Secretary General Partha Chatterjee, on Friday, was granted conditional bail by Calcutta High Court’s single-judge bench of Justice Suvra Ghosh in a case registered against him by the CBI in relation to irregularities in the recruitment of primary teachers.

With the development, decks are finally cleared for Chatterjee to be free from judicial custody after a gap of three years and two months.

This is because, although different courts had already granted bail in all other cases in relation to the multi-crore cash-for-school-job case registered both by CBI and Enforcement Directorate (ED) against him, the development of his getting free from judicial custody was dependent on the Calcutta High Court’s verdict in this pa

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