HC to take up edu scam case today

SHILLONG: The High Court of Meghalaya will take up the education scam case on Monday amid reports of the State Government misleading the Supreme Court through an interlocutory petition claiming that the CBI had already acted upon the previous FIR in connection with the matter.
It was after the police failed to act promptly that CSWO president Agnes Kharshiing, who had filed the FIR against persons involved in the education scam, sought the intervention of the High Court for a CBI probe into the matter that will be decided by the Court.
Earlier, the CBI had limited its inquiry based on the order of erstwhile Shillong Bench of the High Court, which took up writ petitions of the affected candidates, and the investigating agency did not probe the FIR.
Last week, the state government filed an affidavit before the High Court stating that the cases pending in the High Court and the Supreme Court are identical. It also claimed that the FIR filed by Kharshiing was probed by CBI.
Kharshiing wanted a CBI probe to examine the criminal angle in the education scam aimed at taking action against the guilty as the police had not acted promptly.
While the earlier CBI inquiry was  not on the FIR lodged with the police, the case pending in the Supreme Court is related to the formation of the High Level Scrutiny Committee which segregated the ‘tainted and non-tainted teachers’ after the probe report was submitted to the Court by the CBI.
Both Kharshiing and her lawyer N. Syngkon have reiterated that the special leave petition pending before the Supreme Court is not identical with the case pending in the High Court.