Take action against those named in CBI report: Activists

The CBI in its report had reportedly named five cabinet ministers, the assembly speaker and six legislators in the Congress-led coalition government besides other politicians for allegedly "tampering" with the score-sheets of the candidates applying for the post of assistant teachers in 2010.

"It is an open corruption by the legislators and as such, stringent action is warranted and the persons who have committed white collared crimes need to be punished as per law of the land," RTI activists Angela Rangad and women NGO leader Agnes Kharshiing said in an FIR lodged with the East Khasi Hills district police chief M Kharkrang here.

Demanding thorough investigation into the case, the anti-graft activists said the offence committed disclosed by the CBI report were "cognisable offences" urging the police to punish the culprits, how high they may be, involved in the commission of the offence.

A single bench of the Gauhati High Court had ordered for a CBI inquiry into the alleged anomalies in the appointment of assistant teachers in government lower primary schools in Meghalaya after adjudicating on a case of nine writ petitions filed by more than 100 aggrieved applicants from various districts of the state during April-May 2010.