A division bench of the Calcutta Excessive Courtroom on Monday cancelled the unlawful recruitment of 23,753 academics and non-teaching workers by the 2016 Faculty Service Fee (SSC), ordering them to return their salaries with curiosity. The court docket additionally ordered contemporary recruitment towards the posts inside 15 days.
The bench led by Justice Debangsu Basak noticed that the OMR sheets of Group C, Group D, Class IX and X had been manipulated in 2016 making all of the recruitments unlawful. It added that the names of those that had been recruited had been included within the panel illegally. “We’ve got no different manner however to cancel the entire recruitment panel,” Justice Basak stated.
Terming the order “unlucky”, Trinamool Congress (TMC) chief Kunal Ghosh stated, “The state authorities wished to accommodate those that weren’t being recruited illegally. The federal government will discover authorized choices, however this order is unlucky.”
West Bengal BJP president Sukanta Majumdar, in the meantime, criticised the TMC over the rip-off. “It’s now proved that the TMC authorities recruited academics for cash. They turned academics into commodities and bought them available in the market.”
In 2021, the Calcutta Excessive Courtroom ordered the Justice Bag committee to assessment the recruitments in Group C and Group D classes. After preliminary investigation, the committee decided that the OMR sheets had been manipulated, following which the court docket ordered investigations by the CBI and ED.
In August 2022, the Enforcement Directorate (ED) arrested former Training Minister Partha Chatterjee and his shut aide Arpita Mukherjee within the case. A number of SSC officers, together with TMC MLA Manik Bhattacharya had been additionally arrested.