KOLKATA: The Calcutta High Court on Wednesday put an interim stay on an earlier order by its single-judge bench of cancelling 313 teaching jobs in different Gorkhaland Territorial Administration (GTA)-run schools in the hills scattered over Darjeeling, Kurseong, and Kalimpong in West Bengal.
On December 17, the Calcutta High Court's single-bench of Justice Biswajit Basu ordered the cancellation of 313 teaching jobs in GTA-run schools, saying that all these recruitments were made illegally.
Thereafter, GTA approached the Calcutta High Court's division bench of Justice Tapabrata Chakraborty and Justice Biswaroop Chowdhury, challenging the single-judge bench order.
The matter was heard at the Jalpaiguri Circuit Bench of Calcutta High Court, and on Wednesday, the division bench put an interim stay on the single-judge bench for a period of 12 weeks.