30-07-2025
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.
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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.
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