kolkata calcutta high court on friday dismissed a state application seeking review of justice abhijit gangopadhyays april 21 order for a cbi investigation into municipality recruitmentsjustice amrita sinha held that the order for a cbi probe would not affect the urban development and municipal affairs department in any way it does not appear that the department has suffered or may suffer any prejudice by the order sought to be reviewed justice sinha observedthe court held that the state including its departments ought to cooperate with the investigating agencies and ensure that the investigation reaches a logical conclusion at the earliest so that the offenders can be bookedthe supreme court had granted the bengal government leave to file a review application before the hc and directed the court to take a considered view after hearing the partiesadvocate general s n mookherjee had moved the application on the grounds that the court of justice gangopadhyay assigned to hear primary education cases had no jurisdiction to hear matters other than those assigned by the chief justice like appointments in municipalities the order passed by a bench lacking jurisdiction is bad in law and liable to be set aside the ag had submittedmookherjee had also pointed out to the court that investigation into matters relating to law and order were usually given to state agencies other than in exceptional circumstances because law and order was on the state liston the jurisdiction issue the court observed it is true that the honble judge dealing with the matter did not have the determination to take up matters relating to municipalities on the said date but at the same time it is also true that the origin of the matter was within the determination of education matters which the honble judge was dealing withed had approached the court of justice gangopadhyay after coming across allegedly incriminating documents on municipality appointments while conducting searches at real estate developer ayan sils salt lake office in connection with the school recruitment casejustice sinha didnt accept the ags argument that the investigation should have been handed over to a state agency and not cbi the court is unable to accept such contention of the applicant the judge observedit may happen that while proceeding with the investigation the investigating agencies may come across similar crimes in connection with recruitment in other departments of the state it is not only desirable but at the same time convenient if one crime can be investigated by only one agency and not by several investigating agencies otherwise there may always be a chance of having conflicting viewsopinion and the investigation may be delayed the court observed