Calcutta High Court overturns order cancelling 32,000 teachers’ jobs

The Division Bench of Justice Tapabrata Chakraborty and Justice Reetobroto Kumar Mitra found that the single judge had made the decision on a writ petition that had not even challenged the appointments, but rather had prayed for directions to provide the petitioners jobs in the existing vacancies. 

“The petitioners have alleged that there had been a scam in TET, 2014, however, nothing has been produced by the petitioners to establish the involvement of any single appellant in such alleged scam. In the writ petition, all the allegations are pertaining to TET, 2014 in which petitioners themselves have emerged to be successful,” the Court noted. 

It added that corruption and scam are severe allegations that need to be established based on proper documents and evidence.

“For the alleged involvement of the functionaries of the State in any illegality, the appellants cannot be made to suffer and a fresh recruitment could not have been directed upon cancellation of appointment of 32,000 teachers,” the Division Bench added.