KOLKATA: A petition filed at the Calcutta High Court’s single-judge bench of Justice Amrita Sinha challenging the results of the written examination for fresh recruitment of higher secondary teachers in state-run schools of West Bengal is scheduled to come up for its first hearing on Wednesday.
The fresh recruitment is taking place to fill vacancies arising from the cancellation of around 26, 000 school jobs by a division bench of the Supreme Court earlier this year. While pronouncing that judgement in April this year, the apex court barred the “tainted” teachers, who had obtained the jobs after paying money, from participating in the fresh recruitment process.
The petitioner in the case has alleged that by defying the Supreme Court's direction, the West Bengal School Service Commission (WBSSC) allowed several “tainted” candidates to appear for the written examination in the fresh recruitment process. Many of them even qualified for the interview as per the results of the written exam published last week.