Kolkata: The Calcutta High Court on Wednesday granted bail to former West Bengal Board of Secondary Education (WBBSE) president Kalyanmoy Gangopadhyay in the School Service Commission (SSC) recruitment corruption case being probed by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI).

He is the second most important person to be granted bail in the SSC recruitment corruption case after former education minister Partha Chatterjee.

Earlier, Kalyanmoy had been granted bail in the Enforcement Directorate (ED) case in the recruitment scam. It is just a matter of time before Gangopadhyay will be released from judicial custody following the high court order.

Kalyanmoy had approached the Calcutta High Court seeking bail in the CBI case. The case was heard by a bench of Justice Tirthankar Ghosh, who gran

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