Kolkata: Calcutta HC invalidated on Monday all however one in every of 25,758 appointments made by Bengal’s College Service Fee (SSC) in 2016 and ordered round 1,600 of those recruits to return inside 4 weeks the salaries and allowances that they had been paid thus far with 12% curiosity.
The division bench of Justices Debangsu Basak and Md Shabbar Rashidi made a lone exception for most cancers affected person Soma Das, who bought her job “on humanitarian grounds”.
Stating it was tough below the circumstances to “sift the grain from the chaff”, HC stated the “precise quantity” of individuals benefiting from “manipulations and illegalities” within the choice course of could not be recognized. “We’re left with the choice of cancelling all appointments,” it stated, directing CBI to proceed with its probe into the ‘cash-for-jobs’ case and quiz folks in custody, if crucial.
‘One-sided’: Didi slams HC’s faculty hiring order
Calcutta HC’s verdict invalidating over 25,000 appointments by state College Service Fee (SSC) is “unlawful and one-sided”, Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee stated on Monday, including that her govt will transfer SC in opposition to it.
Alleging that the decision was handed “not in a mandir, masjid, gurdwara or church, however in BJP’s bicharalaya (court docket)”, she stated, “There are selective verdicts nowadays. If BJP information a PIL, they get bail; if others file a PIL, it’s jail.”
With out naming Abhijit Gangopadhyay, BJP candidate for Tamluk Lok Sabha seat, she stated at a rally in North Dinajpur’s Raiganj that HC order in SSC appointments case is just like the one {that a} former choose had handed, just for SC to set it apart.
Invoking Tagore, “Bicharer bani nirobe nibhrite kande (Justice weeps silently in isolation)”, Mamata stated, “Central govt has chosen its folks. BJP has determined their postings… I wish to touch upon the judgment. That’s my constitutional proper…” CM expressed shock at those that misplaced their jobs being requested to return salaries they earned in fourweeks. “How will they return their salaries? Will they steal or rob?” “We are attempting to offer jobs however others are citing legalities and stopping this course of. We’ve got lined up 10 lakh jobs.”
Begin in fortnight course of to replenish vacancies: HC
HC additionally directed SSC to start out a contemporary recruitment course of in opposition to vacancies inside a fortnight.
In cancelling all the choice course of, the bench reserved the strictest penalties for appointees recognized as having submitted clean OMR sheets within the recruitment take a look at, and people given jobs exterior the purview of the choice panel or after its time period ended.
Lecturers of Courses IX to XII and candidates recruited to posts in teams C (clerical) and D are amongst these whose appointments stand cancelled, in line with the order.
SSC will transfer SC in opposition to the order. “We’re not glad with the order. It is vitally harsh,” its chairperson Siddhartha Majumder stated. In its affidavit, SSC reported 1,539 ‘extra’ appointments to instructing posts for Courses IX and X by the MadhyamikBoard, apart from 416 to Group C posts and 669 in Group D. One other 199 academics had been appointed in extra of sanctioned posts, it stated.
“Board has no authority to situation appointment letters until advisable by SSC,” the bench stated. It directed CBI to interrogate state officers concerned within the cupboard resolution to create supernumerary posts. “The principal secretary produced a cupboard word and memo on creation of supernumerary posts. So, the state resolved to spend taxpayers’ cash to accord sanction to an employment secured dishonestly,” it famous.
The order mentions the chief secretary’s ‘stubborn angle’ in granting sanction to CBI’s request to start out proceedings in opposition to officers named within the chargesheet. Chief Justice T S Sivagnanam assigned the case to the division bench in accordance with a Nov 2023 directive from SC.
The division bench of Justices Debangsu Basak and Md Shabbar Rashidi made a lone exception for most cancers affected person Soma Das, who bought her job “on humanitarian grounds”.
Stating it was tough below the circumstances to “sift the grain from the chaff”, HC stated the “precise quantity” of individuals benefiting from “manipulations and illegalities” within the choice course of could not be recognized. “We’re left with the choice of cancelling all appointments,” it stated, directing CBI to proceed with its probe into the ‘cash-for-jobs’ case and quiz folks in custody, if crucial.
‘One-sided’: Didi slams HC’s faculty hiring order
Calcutta HC’s verdict invalidating over 25,000 appointments by state College Service Fee (SSC) is “unlawful and one-sided”, Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee stated on Monday, including that her govt will transfer SC in opposition to it.
Alleging that the decision was handed “not in a mandir, masjid, gurdwara or church, however in BJP’s bicharalaya (court docket)”, she stated, “There are selective verdicts nowadays. If BJP information a PIL, they get bail; if others file a PIL, it’s jail.”
With out naming Abhijit Gangopadhyay, BJP candidate for Tamluk Lok Sabha seat, she stated at a rally in North Dinajpur’s Raiganj that HC order in SSC appointments case is just like the one {that a} former choose had handed, just for SC to set it apart.
Invoking Tagore, “Bicharer bani nirobe nibhrite kande (Justice weeps silently in isolation)”, Mamata stated, “Central govt has chosen its folks. BJP has determined their postings… I wish to touch upon the judgment. That’s my constitutional proper…” CM expressed shock at those that misplaced their jobs being requested to return salaries they earned in fourweeks. “How will they return their salaries? Will they steal or rob?” “We are attempting to offer jobs however others are citing legalities and stopping this course of. We’ve got lined up 10 lakh jobs.”
Begin in fortnight course of to replenish vacancies: HC
HC additionally directed SSC to start out a contemporary recruitment course of in opposition to vacancies inside a fortnight.
In cancelling all the choice course of, the bench reserved the strictest penalties for appointees recognized as having submitted clean OMR sheets within the recruitment take a look at, and people given jobs exterior the purview of the choice panel or after its time period ended.
Lecturers of Courses IX to XII and candidates recruited to posts in teams C (clerical) and D are amongst these whose appointments stand cancelled, in line with the order.
SSC will transfer SC in opposition to the order. “We’re not glad with the order. It is vitally harsh,” its chairperson Siddhartha Majumder stated. In its affidavit, SSC reported 1,539 ‘extra’ appointments to instructing posts for Courses IX and X by the MadhyamikBoard, apart from 416 to Group C posts and 669 in Group D. One other 199 academics had been appointed in extra of sanctioned posts, it stated.
“Board has no authority to situation appointment letters until advisable by SSC,” the bench stated. It directed CBI to interrogate state officers concerned within the cupboard resolution to create supernumerary posts. “The principal secretary produced a cupboard word and memo on creation of supernumerary posts. So, the state resolved to spend taxpayers’ cash to accord sanction to an employment secured dishonestly,” it famous.
The order mentions the chief secretary’s ‘stubborn angle’ in granting sanction to CBI’s request to start out proceedings in opposition to officers named within the chargesheet. Chief Justice T S Sivagnanam assigned the case to the division bench in accordance with a Nov 2023 directive from SC.
