Kolkata/IBNS, Sept. 20 -- In an explosive claim, former West Bengal School Service Commission (SSC) chairman Chittaranjan Mondal has said he was pressured by Trinamool Congress (TMC)'s erstwhile heavyweight Mukul Roy and now jailed ex-Education Minister Partha Chatterjee in the recruitment process.

Mondal made the claim at a special CBI court on the inaugural day of the SSC court hearing.

Mondal, who remained the SSC chairman from 2011 to 2013, said he was informed about his appointment to the post by Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee herself.

Roy, who was the number two man after Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee in the ruling Trinamool Congress, joined the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in 2017.

Later, the veteran returned to the TMC in 202...