India, Sept. 26 -- The Calcutta high court granted bail to former West Bengal education minister Partha Chatterjee on Friday in teachers recruitment scam case.

The bail was granted by a single-judge bench of Justice Suvra Ghosh. However, the court has asked Chatterjee to surrender his passport and not leave the jurisdiction of the trial court while on bail.

The court also said that Chatterjee will not be appointed to any public office while his trial is on.

Chatterjee was accused of being involved in illegal recruitment of unmerited candidates on several teaching and non-teaching posts in the education department in West Bengal when he was the education minister.

The investigation into the case started in May 2022 when the Calcutta hi...