The CBI on Friday informed Justice Abhijit Gangopadhyay of the high court that the interview call to a school teacher who lost her job had come from a phone that belonged to the chairman of the Madia district primary education council.
Shilpa Chakrabarti, one of the 125-odd primary school teachers who lost their jobs following charges of corruption, had alleged before Justice Gangopadhyay that she had received a call on December 6, 2017, asking her to appear in the primary education board’s office in North 24-Parganas district for an interview.
Chakrabarti gave the judge the phone number from which the call came. The judge handed the number to the CBI and asked it to find out whose phone it was.
On Friday, the CBI told the judge the phone belonged to Rama Prasad Roy Chowdhury, chairman of the Madia district primary education council.
The agency said Roy Chowdhury had admitted that he had called Chakrabarti, after which she appeared in an interview on December 27, 2017.
The judge asked the CBI to file an affidavit after talking to Roy Chowdhury again.