Kolkata:

The Calcutta High Court will on Monday decide on petitions and appeals related to alleged irregularities in the selection of candidates during the 2016 recruitment process in government-aided and aided primary and secondary schools in West Bengal.

India’s Central Bureau of Investigation, which was probing the case on a High Court order, arrested former state education minister Partha Chatterjee and some officials serving in the West Bengal School Service Commission (SSC) during the alleged scam. .

A high court official said a division bench of Justices Debangsu Basak and Md Shabbar Rashidi will decide on Monday a large number of petitions and appeals related to the recruitment process in schools, which are being heard together.

The division bench, constituted by the Chief Justice of the High Court on the directions of the Supreme Court, heard extensively a large number of petitions and appeals regarding the selection of candidates for the SSC appointment in the category of teachers of classes 9, 10, 11 by 12 Group C and Group D staff members. State Level Selection Test (SLST) 2016.

The hearing in the matter concluded on March 20 with the division bench reserving judgment.

Based on a petition filed by some candidates who appeared for SLST-2016 but did not get jobs, a bench presided over by Justice Abhijit Gangopadhyay ordered a CBI probe into the alleged irregularities in the recruitment process.

The High Court also ordered the termination of some teaching and non-teaching staff after finding irregularities.

While disposing of the petitions related to the matter, the Supreme Court on November 9, 2023 asked the Chief Justice of the Calcutta High Court to constitute a division bench to hear all petitions and appeals related to the SLST recruitment process. Early ruling in 2016.

The Supreme Court, in its order, provided six-month protection to appointments terminated by the high court to enable a division bench to adjudicate on the dispute.

The CBI has completed its investigation into the matter and submitted a report to the High Court within two months from the date of its order as directed by the Supreme Court.

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