SSC 2016 Panel Cancel: The Calcutta High Court has canceled all appointments of teaching and non-teaching staff made through the 2016 state-level test in West Bengal government-sponsored and aided schools.
SSC 2016 Panel Cancel | Calcutta High Court cancels the entire 2016 panel
The judgment will affect all teachers recruited under Group C, D IX, X, XI, and XII categories, and a total of 24,000 jobs now stand canceled. The division bench comprising Justices Debangsu Basak and Md Shabbar Rashidi also asked the appointed persons to return their salaries within six weeks. In its order, the court also directed the state government to conduct a new recruitment drive. It said the CBI would continue its investigation into the case.
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The HC order includes all appointments of teaching, and non-teaching staff in various government-sponsored and aided schools in the state that were done through the 2016 state-level test conducted by the West Bengal School Service Commission (SSC).
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The CBI, which investigated the case on an order of the High Court, had arrested former state education minister Partha Chatterjee and some functionaries who held positions in the WB 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).
