Over 23 lakh candidates had appeared for the 2016 SLST for twenty-four,640 vacant posts.
Kolkata:
The Calcutta Excessive Court docket on Monday declared as null and void the recruitment strategy of State Stage Choice Check-2016 (SLST) in West Bengal government-sponsored and aided colleges, ordering cancellation of all appointments made via it.
A division bench comprising justices Debangsu Basak and Md Shabbar Rashidi additionally directed the CBI to undertake additional investigation in respect of the appointment course of, and submit a report in three months.
The bench directed the West Bengal Faculty Service Fee to provoke a contemporary appointment course of.
Over 23 lakh candidates had appeared for the SLST-2016 for twenty-four,640 vacant posts.
A complete of 25,753 appointment letters have been issued in opposition to the vacancies, stated Firdaus Shamim, a lawyer for among the petitioners.
The division bench additionally rejected a prayer by some appellants for a keep on the order.
Moments after the excessive courtroom order, a whole lot of faculty job aspirants ready outdoors its premises rejoiced, as many broke into tears.
“We had been ready for at the present time. After years of wrestle on the streets, justice has lastly been delivered,” certainly one of them stated.
The division bench, fashioned by the Chief Justice of the excessive courtroom on a course of the Supreme Court docket, had extensively heard quite a few petitions and appeals regarding the collection of candidates for appointment by the SSC within the classes of lecturers of lessons 9, 10, 11 and 12 and group-C and D staffers via the SLST-2016.
Listening to within the issues concluded on March 20 and judgment was reserved by the bench.
On writ petitions by some candidates who appeared in SLST-2016, however didn’t get jobs, a single bench presided by Justice Abhijit Gangopadhyay had ordered a CBI investigation into alleged irregularities within the recruitment course of.
The excessive courtroom had additionally ordered the termination of a number of jobs of instructing and non-teaching staffers after discovering irregularities.
Disposing of petitions earlier than it in reference to the issues, the Supreme Court docket had on November 9, 2023, requested the Chief Justice of the Calcutta Excessive Court docket to represent a division bench to listen to all of the petitions and appeals in regards to the recruitment course of via SLST-2016 for early adjudication.
The Supreme Court docket had in its order accorded safety to the appointments, which have been terminated by the excessive courtroom, for six months to allow the division bench to adjudicate on the disputes.
The CBI had accomplished the investigation into the issues and submitted a report earlier than the excessive courtroom per the course of the Supreme Court docket to take action inside two months from the date of its order.
The central probe company has arrested former state schooling minister Partha Chatterjee and a few functionaries, who held positions within the West Bengal Faculty Service Fee (SSC) when the alleged rip-off befell.
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