‘Untainted’ Teachers Move Calcutta HC, Accuse Bengal Police
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Within the WBSSC job case, a bunch of ‘untainted’ lecturers 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 court docket’s order.
A bunch of “untainted lecturers” from state-run faculties in West Bengal, who misplaced their jobs because of a Supreme Courtroom ruling that cancelled 25,753 educating 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 court docket’s order.
These lecturers have been protesting for over a month with a sit-in demonstration close to the West Bengal Faculty 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 lecturers 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 lecturers, Chinmay Mondal and Sangeeta Ghosh, dropped at the eye of Justice Tirthankar Ghosh that, regardless of the court docket’s clear directives, the police continued to situation notices to them.
Justice Ghosh famous that these “untainted lecturers receiving such notices might problem them by submitting particular person or joint petitions by means of their counsel.”
The counsel additionally requested that the court docket dismiss the principle FIR in opposition to the protesting lecturers concerning the alleged ransacking. Justice Ghosh responded that any listening to on the matter would happen solely after correct petitions have been submitted and notices served to all events concerned.
As well as, the “Jogyo Shikshak-Shikshika Adhikar Mancha” (Real Lecturers’ 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 college appointments made by means of the WBSSC, stating that the panel needed to be totally scrapped because of the authorities’ lack of ability to distinguish between “tainted” and “untainted” candidates.
The state authorities and the WBSSC have since filed overview petitions within the Supreme Courtroom to rethink this order.
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