Calcutta High Court Appoints New Head To Probe West Bengal Teachers’ Job Scam

Calcutta High Court has appointed senior police officer Ashwin Shenvi as the head of the SIT, investigating the alleged teachers’ job scam in the state of West Bengal.

Mr Shenvi is a 2006-batch IPS officer from the Haryana cadre. He had joined the Central Bureau of Investigation in the year 2020 and was the SP at Jind, Haryana.

“CBI has referred the names of Sudhanshu Khare, Michaelraj S and Ashwin Shenvi. Out of these three names, I select Mr Ashwin Shenvi, who is DIG ACB in CBI Chandigarh, that has vast experience in investigation of corruption cases,” the single judge bench of the Calcutta High Court, Justice Abhijit Gangopadhyay, stated while issuing the order.