KOLKATA: Former West Bengal Education Minister Partha Chatterjee may be released from judicial custody soon, with the deposition of the eighth and final witness in the Central Bureau of Investigation’s (CBI) three School Service Commission (SSC) recruitment cases expected to conclude on Monday.
As per a Supreme Court directive, Chatterjee -- granted bail by the Calcutta High Court -- can be released from the Presidency Correctional Home only after the testimony of eight witnesses across the three cases is completed. With the process set to conclude today, his legal team is likely to move the CBI’s special court in Alipore seeking his release, more than three years after his arrest by the Enforcement Directorate (ED) in July 2022.