Recruitment rip-off: SC allows West Bengal govt to retain ‘untainted’ teachers for now, orders fresh hiring by December 31 | India News

NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court on Thursday allowed the West Bengal authorities to let the untainted assistant teachers appointed via the botched up recruitment to proceed to stay at work in gentle of the curiosity of scholars of sophistication 9-12.
The apex court docket, nevertheless, stated that no non-teaching employees, tainted or in any other case teachers could be allowed to work.
The prime court docket additionally directed the West Bengal authorities, schooling board and W School Services Commission to file affidavit by May 31 enclosing commercial for fresh recruitment of teachers and endeavor that means of choice could be accomplished by December 31.
No one allowed to proceed as teachers, would get any profit within the fresh examination, the highest court docket stated.
This comes days after, the apex court docket concurred with Calcutta HC’s choice to cancel the 2016 recruitment of over 25,700 teachers and non-teaching employees for state govt faculties, saying the alternatives had been tainted past restore.
Dismissing appeals of Mamata govt, West Bengal School Services Commission and 125 profitable candidates, a bench of Chief Justice Sanjiv Khanna and Justice Sanjay Kumar stated, “The entire selection process has been vitiated and tainted beyond resolution.”
In its judgement, SC had stated that tainted candidates, who had been appointed as teachers or to non-teaching employees posts, “should be required to refund any salaries/payments received. Since their appointments were the result of fraud, this amounts to cheating”.
However, it stated though non-tainted candidates would lose jobs, they will not be requested to refund salaries and reimbursements they obtained.
West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee had refused to settle for SC’s and stated transferring the affected employees would have been a extra simply answer.
“I have a question here. If the only consequence after crores are recovered from a judge’s house is a transfer, they could have just transferred these 25,000 brothers and sisters as well,” she stated, referring to a latest controversy.
“We have no complaint against any judge. But, as a citizen, I have every right to say – with respect to the judiciary – that I cannot accept the judgment,” Banerjee stated. “We cannot criticise a judge, but we can express our views on humanitarian grounds.”