Tainted candidates can't apply for school jobs, rules Calcutta HC

KOLKATA: Candidates specified arsenic tainted successful the 2016 Bengal's School Service Commission (SSC) sheet (hirings) volition not beryllium allowed to enactment successful a caller schoolhouse recruitment process for 35,726 vacancies, Calcutta precocious tribunal held Monday and directed SSC to cancel applications by specified candidates.

SSC had earlier submitted a database of 'tainted candidates' earlier the Supreme Court.The HC seat of Justice Saugata Bhattacharyya besides refused to interfere with issues of marks allotment and property relaxation successful the caller recruitment process arsenic that would disrupt the timeline acceptable by the apex court. The SC had directed that a caller recruitment notification beryllium issued by May 31 and the recruitment process completed by Dec 31.Multiple writ petitions were filed earlier the HC aft the SSC issued the recruitment notification connected May 30. While immoderate of the petitioners claimed tainted candidates were being allowed to enactment successful the process others challenged other marks for erstwhile teaching acquisition and property relaxation for untainted candidates.Representing SSC, elder lawyer and TMC MP Kalyan Bandopadhyay, said the caller recruitment process was unfastened to each - tainted, untainted, and unsuccessful.

"Can determination beryllium treble punishment? Refund of wage has been directed, and work has been terminated with nary property benefit. Then tin they not beryllium for the examination? How galore times volition these radical beryllium penalised?" helium argued.The elder advocator said the lone quality betwixt tainted and untainted candidates successful the caller process was successful presumption of relaxation - untainted candidates were allowed an property relaxation but tainted candidates were not. Bandopadhyay argued that if tainted candidates were barred, past unsuccessful candidates should besides beryllium barred.Representing the state, advocate-general Kishore Datta argued that the "SC judgement does not accidental tainted candidates volition not beryllium allowed to participate".Senior advocator Bikash Ranjan Bhattacharya argued that according to an precocious tribunal part seat order, upheld by the apex court, SSC was expected to enlistee afresh according to the 2016 rules.

Bhattacharya specified that lone 2 categories were allowed property relaxation, untainted candidates and disabled candidates. Justice Bhattacharyya made it wide that the tribunal volition not interfere successful allotment of marks due to the fact that it's a argumentation decision. "What is troubling the tribunal is whether tainted volition beryllium permitted to apply. Keeping the enactment process live successful presumption of the clip docket fixed by the Supreme Court, the tribunal tin debar the tainted candidates from participating."