KOLKATA: A petition was filed at the Calcutta High Court on Monday, challenging the results of the written examination for fresh recruitment of higher secondary teachers in state-run schools of West Bengal.
The results were published by the West Bengal School Service Commission (WBSSC) on Saturday night.
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.
In a petition filed at Calcutta High Court’s single-judge bench of Justice Amrita Sinha, the petitioner had claimed that in the list of candidates qualifying for interview published by WBSSC on Saturday, there are names of several “tainted” candidates.