Emphasising that his government is adopting a ‘zero tolerance’ policy on corruption, West Bengal Chief Minister Suvendu Adhikari on Wednesday (May 13, 2026) gave sanction to the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) to prosecute officials allegedly involved in several scams.
Mr. Adhikari gave sanction to the CBI to prosecute officials involved in the teacher’s recruitment scam, municipality recruitment scam and cooperative scam which had been withheld by the previous Trinamool Congress government.
“The previous government had kept this permission on hold to save corrupt bureaucrats and officials. The CBI or any other investigating agency appointed by the court has to take permission from the state government as per the law to ensure punishment of corrupt officials or to file charge sheets against them. We have given the necessary permission to the CBI to take action against corrupt officials of the three departments,” Mr. Adhikari said.
The Chief Minister said that the BJP government in West Bengal has raised many expectations and his government is adopting a ‘zero tolerance’ policy when it comes to corruption.
“Our party manifesto also mentioned taking action against institutional corruption. The people of the state will see more steps in that regard in the coming days. We have started the work,” he said. The teacher’s recruitment scam and the municipal recruitment scam had rocked the previous Trinamool Congress government, resulting in the arrest of several Trinamool leaders. On May 11, the Enforcement Directorate arrested former Trinamool Minister Sujit Bose in a municipal recruitment scam.
