The Supreme Court on Monday (April 29) put an interim stay on the CBI probe into the position of West Bengal authorities officers in an alleged instructor recruitment rip-off until additional orders in a significant aid to the Mamata Banerjee-led West Bengal authorities. The prime courtroom set additional May 6 for additional listening to West Bengal authorities plea against the Calcutta High Court determination declaring the whole panel of 2016 School Service Commission teachers’ recruitment null and void and canceling all appointments of teachers and non-teaching employees.
The West Bengal authorities had moved the Supreme Court difficult the Calcutta High Court order invalidating the appointment of 25,753 teachers and non-teaching employees made by the School Service Commission (SSC) in state-run and state-aided colleges.
A bench of Chief Justice DY Chandrachud, Justice JB Pardiwala and Justice Manoj Misra mentioned it should hear the matter on May 6.
“We will stay the direction which says the CBI (Central Bureau of Investigation) will undertake further investigation against officials in the state government,” the bench mentioned.
What had Calcutta High Court mentioned within the case?
Calcutta High Court had mentioned the CBI would undertake additional investigations with regard to the individuals concerned within the state authorities approving the creation of supernumerary publish to accommodate unlawful appointments. If needed, the CBI will undertake custodial interrogation of such individuals concerned, it had mentioned.
Challenging the order, the state authorities, in its attraction filed earlier than the highest courtroom, mentioned the excessive courtroom cancelled the appointments “arbitrarily”.
“The high court failed to appreciate the ramification of cancelling the entire selection process, leading to straightaway termination of teaching and non-teaching staff from service with immediate effect, without giving sufficient time to the petitioner state to deal with such an exigency, rendering the education system at a standstill,” the plea mentioned.
