Mamata Govt Gets Relief In Teachers' Recruitment Case From SC, But CBI Probe On In 2016 Appointments

The Supreme Court declined the plea for a CBI investigation into the 2022 creation of teaching and school staff positions in Bengal but upheld the ongoing CBI investigation into 2016 appointments.

Bengal Teachers' Recruitment: Staffers at a Bengal government college breakdown after the SC invalidated 25,000 appointments made by the Mamata Banerjee government.

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There will be no CBI investigation into the 2022 decision of the state government to create additional posts of teachers and school staff in West Bengal. Overruling a decision of the Calcutta High Court, a Supreme Court Bench headed by Chief Justice Sanjeev Khanna, however, said that the CBI investigation into the appointments made in 2016 will continue.

Last week, the Supreme Court cancelled more than 25,000 appointments made in 2016. But on Tuesday, the Mamata Banerjee government received relief in the matter of the creation of additional posts in 2022. The CBI investigation was termed "unnecessary" by the Supreme Court.

What Is The 2022 Case?

 The Calcutta High Court in 2022 had upheld an order for a CBI investigation into the alleged 'illegal' appointments made by the West Bengal Board of Secondary Education based on School Service Commission (SSC) recommendations. The previous order was issued by a single-judge Bench of the HC, comprising Justice Abhijit Gangopadhyay.

The Division Bench had then termed the alleged "irregularities" a "public scam". The HC said that a five-member committee had illegally overseen the appointment process conducted by a panel in 2016. The panel had conducted the appointment process for teachers and group C and D staffers in government-run and -aided schools.

The Supreme Court on Tuesday, however, said that it wouldn't intervene as the additional posts were created by the state education department only after necessary consultations with stakeholders. The SC further said that the appointments were done with the approval of the Governor.

SC Terminates 25,000 Jobs

The Supreme Court on April 3 terminated the employment of more than 25,000 teachers and other school employees in West Bengal. Chief Justice of India Sanjiv Khanna said: "We have gone through the facts regarding the findings of this case. The entire selection process is vitiated by manipulation and fraud. The credibility and legitimacy are denuded. No reason to infer that tainted candidates must be terminated and appointments were resultant of cheating and, thus, fraud."

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