A niece of Bengal’s former chief minister Mamata Banerjee allegedly died by suicide in a village in Birbhum’s Rampurhat on Tuesday.
Bristy Mukherjee, 28, had misplaced her job as a non-teaching workers in Bolpur’s Higher Main College in March 2023. Practically 26,000 educating and non-teaching workers have been sacked as a result of they gained employment “illegally” by way of favouritism and alleged change of money.
The appointments have been struck down by the Calcutta Excessive Courtroom and later the Supreme Courtroom.
Hailing from Birbhum’s Kusumba village in Rampurhat, the deceased’s father, Nihar Mukherjee, is Mamata’s maternal cousin and a neighborhood Trinamool Congress chief.
Sources stated Bristy was depressed because the courtroom verdict.
Her identify was within the 608th place within the checklist of candidates who misplaced their jobs following the excessive courtroom’s order which was upheld by the Supreme Courtroom later.
The household had claimed that she had resigned from the put up after working for sooner or later on well being grounds.
The cash-for-jobs rip-off within the state degree choice take a look at performed of 2016 performed by the West Bengal College Service Fee was one of many main circumstances of corruption throughout Mamata’s 15-year rule.
Then Bengal schooling minister Partha Chatterjee, MLAs from the then ruling occasion and senior officers within the college service fee and the schooling board have been arrested and named within the chargesheet.
The Supreme Courtroom had earlier set a deadline of December 31 to accommodate the “certified” educating and non-teaching workers who had secured the roles with none “unfair” means. On Monday, the Supreme Courtroom prolonged the deadline until Could 31.
