The Calcutta High Court on Friday (September 26) granted bail to former West Bengal minister Partha Chatterjee in connection with the primary school teacher recruitment irregularities case.

Trinamool Congress (TMC) MLA Partha Chatterjee is the prime accused in the cash-for-jobs 'scam' in Bengal’s state-run schools, which ran into several thousand crores and rocked state politics.

The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) and the Enforcement Directorate (ED) lodged several cases against him and are investigating the matter. Subsequently, the CBI filed a chargesheet on December 27 last year.

Chatterjee has been in prison for more than three years. Earlier, he was granted bail in other cases slapped on him by the ED and CBI. Calcutta High Court's recent direction would make him walk out of

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