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Hans India
18-05-2025
- Politics
- Hans India
WBSSC recruitment case: Police summons protesting teachers on May 21
Police have summoned teachers protesting outside the West Bengal Education Department headquarters for allegedly destroying public property and obstructing state government personnel from performing their duties. As many as 17 protesting teachers, including some who received head and body injuries in "police action", have been asked to be physically present at Bidhannagar North Police Station in Kolkata, which comes under the jurisdiction of the Bidhannagar Police Commissionerate, at 11 a.m. on May 21. In the notice, a copy of which is available with IANS, these 17 teachers have also been cautioned of arrest under various sections of Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, 2023, in case they do not turn up at the police station. Bidhannagar Police Commissionerate has filed a sumo motu case against those protesting teachers, accusing them of destroying public property, obstructing state government personnel from performing their duties, and launching attacks on police. The summons to these 17 teachers is related to the suo motu case by the police. On the other hand, an advocate of Calcutta High Court, on Friday, has sought suo motu intervention of the same court in the matter of "unprovoked" and "ruthless" baton charge by police on the protesting teachers, whose demand was that the state government and the West Bengal School Service Commission (WBSSC) should publish list segregating the "untainted" candidates from the "tainted" one who got jobs paying money. The Leader of the Opposition in the West Bengal Assembly, Suvendu Adhikari, has already announced that the BJP legislative team will raise the issue during the Monsoon Session, starting June 9. On April 3 this year, the Supreme Court upheld a previous order by the Calcutta High Court's division bench of Justice Debangshu Basak and Justice Shabbar Rashidi cancelling 25,753 school jobs in West Bengal. The Apex Court also accepted the observation of the Calcutta High Court that the entire panel of 25,753 candidates had to be cancelled because of the failure of the state government and the commission to segregate the "untainted" candidates from the "tainted" ones. The state government and WBSSC had already filed review petitions in the Apex Court on this issue.
Indian Express
24-04-2025
- Politics
- Indian Express
Bengal Education Department questions maintainability of contempt petition
The West Bengal Education Department on Wednesday questioned before the Calcutta High Court the maintainability of a contempt petition that claimed non-compliance of its order regarding 26,000 school jobs in the state. The West Bengal School Service Commission (SSC) and the secondary education Board raised questions about the admissibility of the case before the division bench of Justice Debangshu Basak and Justice Shabbat Rashidi. The petitioners, complaining of violation of the judgment passed by the Calcutta HC on April 22, 2024 and 'as modified' by the Supreme Court on April 3 and on April 17 this year, moved the contempt petition before the HC. They claimed that the education department has not uploaded OMR sheets, available in three hard disks on the SSC website and that these be made available to the public for viewing as was ordered by the HC. The division bench asked what has been done to comply with the order. 'They want uploading of sheets, recovery of salaries of the tainted candidates and you are the authority to make the recovery. Uploading of OMR remains untouched, you are presently responsible for the recovery of have you done,' the court observed. The education department's counsel submitted that since the SC had modified some of the directions of the HC, a contempt application can be moved before the top court only. 'The HC orders have been modified by the Supreme Court. The HC order ceases to exist due to modifications. The contempt has to be heard by the last court which passed the order,' SSC counsel submitted. The SSC counsel further said that some parts of the verdict have been revised and the rest dismissed and therefore, the court cannot hear this case. Justice Basak counter questioned, '…Leaving aside the admissibility, we want to see what steps have been taken.' The matter will be heard on Monday.
