The Calcutta High Court has cancelled all appointments of teaching and non-teaching staff made through the 2016 state-level test in West Bengal government-sponsored and aided schools.
The judgement will affect all teachers recruited under Group C, D and IX, X, XI, XII categories with a total of 24,000 jobs cancelled.
The HC has asked them to return their salary in four weeks. The court has directed the govt to conduct new recruitment again. CBI will continue its probe in the case.
The CBI, which investigated the case on an order of the high court, arrested former state education minister Partha Chatterjee and some functionaries who held positions in the West Bengal School Service Commission (SSC) during the occurrence of the alleged scam.
The division bench comprising Justices Debangsu Basak and Md Shabbar Rashidi, formed by the Chief Justice of the High Court on a direction of the Supreme Court, extensively heard numerous petitions and appeals relating to the selection of candidates for appointment by the SSC in the categories of teachers of classes IX, X, XI, XII and group-C and D staffers through State Level Selection Test-2016 (SLST).
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