The Supreme Court on Thursday dismissed a plea by the bureaucracy that assistant teachers in West Bengal be sacked if they were not part of any wrongdoing in the controversy-hit recruitment drive in 2016. The court explained that such a decision was made with consideration of the welfare of students. The West Bengal government has been further asked to carry out a new recruitment by May 31 and complete it by December 31, 2025.
On a bench consisting of Chief Justice Sanjiv Khanna and Justice Sanjay Kumar, they said, “We are disposed to allow the prayer in the present application as regards to the assistant teachers of Classes IX-X and Classes XI-XII. However, the relief is only insofar as the court observed malpractice in the recruitment of Group C and D staff.”
This judgment occurred after the April 3 Supreme Court judgment that had quashed the appointments of over 25,000 teaching and non-teaching staff in state-sponsored and aided schools across West Bengal. In the recruitment process by the West Bengal School Service Commission (WBSSC) that was held in 2016, the court found out many irregularities.
The bench said that the recruitment process was, on its face, marred by manipulations that were meant to compromise the fairness and integrity of the selection procedure. Therefore, all appointments arising from that process were declared invalid.
Arguments were made by many out of job that they were victims of the WBSSC’s inability to differentiate between those who gained employment through fraudulent means and those who were hired properly. The ruling is meant to assist those who did not play any part in any corruption while it looks to ensure sure state forwards with a transparent and transparent hiring process for new appointments.
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