calcutta high court judgement on ssc pdf
calcutta high court judgement on ssc pdf :
The Calcutta High Court ruling, which cancelled the 2016 recruitment panel set up by the West Bengal School Service Commission (SSC), and dismissed 25,753 teachers and non-teaching staff of Classes IX-XII, in connection with the SSC recruitment scam, could not have come at a worse time for West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee and her Trinamool Congress. The High Court ruling on April 22, came just four days before the second phase of the Lok Sabha election, and once again brought to the fore widespread corruption in the State under the Trinamool government and the rot in the education system.
A division bench of judges Debangshu Basak and Shabbar Rashidi, also directed those who were recruited even though they had submitted blank OMR sheets; those who were selected from outside the SSC panel; and those who were recruited after the expiry of the panel, to return their salaries and benefits they had earned since the time of their joining service, with 12 per cent interest within four weeks. However, not all who were thrown out of work, with the High Court order, had got their jobs through illegal means. The court observed that the entire selection process “is shrouded in such mystery and in such layers that it is difficult to fathom the quantum of illegalities performed.” On top of this, according to the court, “the non-cooperative stand of SSC, State and Board had added to the burden.”
Explaining its decision to scrap the entire panel, the Court order said, “We have given anxious consideration to the passionate plea that persons who had obtained the appointments legally would be prejudiced if we cancel the entire selection process... we have hardly been left with a choice. We would rather have persons of integrity appointed as teachers through an untainted selection process... than expose students to elements securing appointments through an unscrupulous selection process. Retaining appointees selected through such a dubious process would be contrary to public interest. By dint of the tenure of service of such appointees, successive generations of students would be exposed to these elements.”
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