‘Untainted’ Teachers Move Calcutta HC, Accuse Bengal Police
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Within the WBSSC job case, a gaggle of ‘untainted’ academics who misplaced their jobs after the Supreme Courtroom’s ruling have approached the Calcutta Excessive Courtroom, alleging that Bengal Police are harassing them regardless of the apex courtroom’s order.
A gaggle of “untainted academics” from state-run colleges in West Bengal, who misplaced their jobs resulting from a Supreme Courtroom ruling that cancelled 25,753 instructing and non-teaching positions in April, approached a single-judge bench of the Calcutta Excessive Courtroom.
They accused the state police of harassing them in violation of the apex courtroom’s order.
These academics have been protesting for over a month with a sit-in demonstration close to the West Bengal College Service Fee (WBSSC) workplace in Salt Lake, Kolkata.
Beforehand, the Calcutta Excessive Courtroom had instructed that no coercive actions may very well be taken in opposition to the protesting academics by the Bidhannagar Metropolis Police whereas a case in opposition to them was pending.
This case concerned allegations of ransacking the WBSSC workplace earlier this yr.
Nevertheless, on Friday, the counsel for 2 of the protesting academics, Chinmay Mondal and Sangeeta Ghosh, dropped at the eye of Justice Tirthankar Ghosh that, regardless of the courtroom’s clear directives, the police continued to subject notices to them.
Justice Ghosh famous that these “untainted academics receiving such notices may problem them by submitting particular person or joint petitions via their counsel.”
The counsel additionally requested that the courtroom dismiss the primary FIR in opposition to the protesting academics concerning the alleged ransacking. Justice Ghosh responded that any listening to on the matter would happen solely after correct petitions had been submitted and notices served to all events concerned.
As well as, the “Jogyo Shikshak-Shikshika Adhikar Mancha” (Real Academics’ Rights Discussion board), the group main the protests, introduced plans for a “March to the State Secretariat of Nabanna” on July 14.
Earlier, On April 3, a Supreme Courtroom bench led by then Chief Justice Sanjiv Khanna upheld a previous Calcutta Excessive Courtroom ruling that invalidated the 25,753 faculty appointments made via the WBSSC, stating that the panel needed to be fully scrapped because of the authorities’ incapacity to distinguish between “tainted” and “untainted” candidates.
The state authorities and the WBSSC have since filed assessment petitions within the Supreme Courtroom to rethink this order.
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