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Kolkata, Nov 19 (IANS) A single-judge bench of the Calcutta High Court on Wednesday directed the West Bengal School Service Commission (WBSSC) to identify the tainted candidates who qualified for interviews for the new recruitment process of higher secondary teachers in government schools in the state and also publish their names.
A single-judge bench of Justice Amrita Sinha said this on Wednesday at the end of the first hearing on a petition challenging the results of the written examination for new recruitment of higher secondary teachers, which was published last week.
Justice Sinha directed the Commission to publish the names of such “tainted” candidates who have qualified for the interview, along with the names and addresses of their guardians.
Justice Sinha also said that since there could be more than one “tainted” candidate with the same name, the list should be published along with the names and addresses of the guardians of such candidates.
The next hearing in the case is on December 3 and till then the Commission will have to publish the list as per the instructions of Justice Sinha.
The fresh recruitment is taking place to fill the vacancies created by the cancellation of nearly 26,000 school jobs by a division bench of the Supreme Court earlier this year. Delivering its verdict in April this year, the apex court had barred “tainted” teachers, who had secured jobs by paying them, from participating in the new recruitment process.
The petitioner in the case has alleged that, in disregard of the Supreme Court direction earlier this year, the WBSSC allowed several “tainted” candidates to appear for the written examination in the new recruitment process. Many of them also qualified for the interview as per the results of the written examination published last week.
Around 20,000 candidates who appeared for the written examination for the new recruitment process have qualified for the interview. The process of verification of his documents started on November 18.
The Supreme Court on April 3 this year upheld an earlier order of a division bench of the Calcutta High Court which had quashed the entire panel of WBSSC for 2016.
The Supreme Court also accepted the contention of the Calcutta High Court that the entire panel had to be quashed because, despite repeated insistence by both the High Court and the apex court, neither the state education department nor the Commission submitted two separate lists separating “tainted” candidates from “tainted” candidates.
The apex court directed that the entire new recruitment process will have to be completed by December 31 this year.
Although the Supreme Court barred “tainted” teachers from participating in the new recruitment process, it allowed “spotless” teachers to participate.
–IANS
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