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Time of India
30-07-2025
- Politics
- Time of India
State: Justice Ganguly's order on teachers' appt had ‘mismatch'
Kolkata: Former Calcutta HC judge Abhijit Ganguly's order annulling the appointment of 32,000 primary teachers in state-run primary schools due to corruption allegations, had a "mismatch" between the judge's observations and his subsequent directions, alleged state counsel Abhratosh Majumdar, while pleading against the order on Wednesday. Making his arguments before the bench of justices Tapabrata Chakraborty and Reetobroto Mitra in HC, Majumdar asked why Justice Ganguly hadn't stopped the successful TET 2014 candidates from appearing in the subsequent TET 2016 or TET 2020 if there was a whiff of corruption in the 2014 exam process. "Why didn't the judge distinguish between tainted and untainted candidates if he had reasons to believe that there might have been corruption in the TET 2014 examination?" Majumdar asked. The senior counsel asserted there was no finding in the single bench order establishing corruption until March 2017, a month after most appointments were made in Feb 2017. He also questioned Justice Ganguly's decision to "cherry-pick" candidates. "Only five districts — Howrah, Hooghly, Cooch Behar, North Dinajpur, and Murshidabad — were chosen for scrutiny without citing grounds for selecting these districts. by Taboola by Taboola Sponsored Links Sponsored Links Promoted Links Promoted Links You May Like Emergency Generators in Montalvo: (Prices May Surprise You) Emergency Generator | Search Ads Search Now Undo The judge didn't call all the candidates from these districts, either. He chose candidates from the list and called them for questioning. The in-camera proceedings were held on Feb 21, 2023, following which the judge concluded that no aptitude test was held," Majumdar said. You Can Also Check: Kolkata AQI | Weather in Kolkata | Bank Holidays in Kolkata | Public Holidays in Kolkata
Time of India
20-05-2025
- Politics
- Time of India
WBBPE appeals against cancellation of appointment of 32,000 teachers
Kolkata: In an appeal against the cancellation of the appointment of 32,000 candidates in primary schools, the West Bengal Board of Primary Education (WBBPE) on Tuesday told the Calcutta High Court that there was no case of corruption in the 2016 recruitment process. Senior advocate Kishore Datta represented the WBBPE in its appeal against the order of Justice Abhijit Gangopadhyay on May 16, 2023. The next hearing is on June 12. Datta argued, "Corruption was alleged for the 2014 and 2020 recruitment processes. We are dealing with the 2016 recruitment process. The petitioners had claimed that TET 2014 was the biggest scam, and Rs 14-20 lakh was taken for a job. This has nothing to do with the recruitment process of 2016. With regards to corruption, everything is related to TET 2014." The petitioners, "untrained and unselected" candidates, said during the last hearing that even though they were placed similarly to many other "untrained" candidates who were selected, they were not considered by the Board. They alleged that no aptitude test took place. In his arguments, Datta questioned whether Justice Gangopadhyay could have directed the dismissal of appointments when the petitioners did not include such a prayer in their plea. "The court took it upon itself to act as the prosecutor. First is the bar to undertake this kind of probe, and secondly, at whose instance. The HC should have restricted the pleadings… My case is that the judge became the prosecutor."
