Shillong, Nov. 3 -- The Supreme Court has issued notices to former Meghalaya Education Minister Dr Mazel Ampareen Lyngdoh and two retired senior bureaucrats after the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) challenged the Meghalaya High Court's decision to quash criminal proceedings against them in the infamous 2008 lower primary school teachers' recruitment scam, an official said on Monday.
The notices were issued following a hearing on the CBI's special leave petition (criminal), which questions the circumstances under which the High Court terminated the trial despite the earlier direction for a CBI investigation into the alleged recruitment irregularities.
The case stems from alleged irregularities in the 2008 recruitment of assistant te...