Calcutta high court

The Calcutta high court cancelled the appointments of 1911 Group D staff in various schools in West Bengal while hearing the multi-crore recruitment scam on ...

“Till date the Calcutta high court has cancelled jobs of more than 3,000 candidates who got their appointments of teachers and non-teaching staff in various state-run schools using fraudulent means. The high court ordered a CBI probe into the school recruitment scam in May last year and the agency lodged a first information report (FIR) in the same month. The petitioners in this case are those candidates who qualified the recruitment and eligibility tests but were not recruited.

The order came after the court found that the 1911 candidates had got the recommendation owing to manipulation of their OMR sheets for the recruitment ...

The Calcutta High Court on Friday directed the West Bengal Board of Secondary Education to cancel jobs of 1911 Group D employees, who were given appointment ...

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The appointment to these 'Group D' employees were given in state government-sponsored and aided schools illegally. Concerning the manipulation of recruitment ...

He asked the SSC to recommend names of waitlisted candidates to the board to fill up the 1,911 posts in accordance with merit, within three weeks from Friday. The order came after the court found these candidates had got the recommendation from SSC, owing to manipulation of OMR sheets for the recruitment examination in 2016. Concerning the manipulation of recruitment examination results the Calcutta High Court has taken the decision.

SSC's counsel claimed in court on Thursday that the answer sheets (OMR sheets) of 2819 candidates in Group 'D' recruitment had been tampered with.

They told the court that there was widespread corruption in school recruitment. The commission’s counsel also stated that the matter is being investigated on their behalf. If necessary, the CBI can question illegally recruited people in custody. He also stated that the names of 2,819 people will be uploaded to the commission’s website and that the recommendation letter will be withdrawn within 5 minutes of the commission submitting its affidavit in court on Friday. And you can no longer use your educational credentials anywhere. Subiresh Bhattacharya was the chairman of the SSC at the time of the publication of the 2016 examination results.

Justice Abhijit Gangopadhyay says they will have to return the salaries paid to them in instalments.

Siddharta Majumdar, chairperson of the WBSSC, said the Commission would start the process of terminating the service of 803 teachers in State-run schools, who had allegedly used illegal means to get the jobs. The court also directed Subires Bhattacharya, who was the chairman of the WBSSC at the time of publication of results for the 2016 examinations, to disclose the names of persons who asked to manipulate the results. Justice Abhijit Gangopadhyay also directed that the 1,911 candidates will not be allowed inside the premises of schools they were associated with, and they will have to return the salaries paid to them in instalments.