‘We cannot hear’, HC said on petitions filed against issuing list of tainted candidates for Bengal Teacher Recruitment
The Calcutta High Court has refused to hear the petitions filed challenging the publishing the list of tainted candidates of West Bengal recruitment. In April, the Supreme Court canceled these appointments after being rigged in the recruitment of 25,000 teachers. In this, 1,804 candidates were found tainted. On the direction of the Supreme Court, the list of these tainted candidates was released, which were filed challenging, but the High Court rejected them.
On the direction of the Supreme Court, West Bengal School Service Commission (Wbssc) 28 State level selection test of 2016 on its website on August (SLST) Released the list of unqualified candidates related to. In this, 1804 people are named, these people will not be allowed to appear in the upcoming recruitment examinations.
According to the PTI report, High Court Judge Justice Saugat Bhattacharya said that special permission petitions are under consideration before the Supreme Court and the list containing the names of tainted candidates has been published by the West Bengal Central School Services Commission on behalf of the Supreme Court of August 28, so these are not suitable cases in which the High Court should intervene.
He dismissed the petitions, dismissing the petitioners’ claim of being an impeccable teacher. Justice Bhattacharya said that in its order of August 28, the Supreme Court lodged the argument of the SSC counsel that the list of tainted candidates whose selection was canceled by the court, their list would be made public on the Commission’s website within seven days.
These petitions were filed in the High Court on behalf of those candidates, whose names were in the list of tainted candidates. In this, in the memorandum released by SSC on August 30, the publication of the list of names of such candidates was questioned. The list includes the names of 1,804 candidates, who have been declared tainted in connection with participating in the first state level selection examination for classes 9,10,11 and 12 in 2016.
Justice Bhattacharya said that this list has been published as per the order passed on August 28 on the special permission petition by the Supreme Court. According to an order of the Supreme Court, these 1,804 tainted candidates are also among the more than 25,000 teaching and non-teaching employees who lost their jobs in the West Bengal government and lost their jobs. The Supreme Court found the entire selection process contaminated in its decision.